once over lightly

Example Sentences

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This once-over-lightly approach is perhaps appropriate, given that Stritch was not inclined to introspection.

From Washington Post

It’s more a once-over-lightly juxtaposition of soil types and wine characteristics, along with a look at the grapes that thrive in each type of soil and suggestions of wine producers to seek out.

From New York Times

She was not one for a once-over-lightly look at what the policy team was advocating.

From Washington Post

But we common folk, staring woefully at our bathroom mirrors, tend to give it the once-over-lightly.

From New York Times

If this book has a once-over-lightly feel, that is because there were many intertwined strands in Liszt’s extraordinary life, each of which could merit a book in itself.

From Economist