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 • Oct. 24, 2019
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 • Nov. 30, 2017
She was not one for a once-over-lightly look at what the policy team was advocating.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2016
Mr. Southerland’s once-over-lightly, picture-postcard production provides an ideal means for sampling a nearly forgotten show that tunefully flirts with tastelessness.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2015
Under this once-over-lightly procedure, familiar to Cagney fans, Miss Davis comes as leapingly alive as if she had been stuck with a pin.
From Time Magazine Archive
