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slick as a whistle
Idioms and Phrases
Very-smooth and neat; also, smoothly, quickly, easily. For example, That salesman is as slick as a whistle , or The fence post went in place slick as a whistle . The allusion in this simile, first recorded in 1830, is not totally clear, but presumably it refers either to the ease of producing a whistle or to its clear tone.Example Sentences
I reached back under and picked up the first pig, slick as a whistle.
Over the phone, director of corporate communications Henry Posner is hesitant to reveal what percentage of their sales are made online, but he is eager to describe their 鈥渟lick as a whistle鈥 iPad app released in late May.
I went to work at it, an, after a leetle wile, it went off like grease, jest as slick as a whistle.
"As slick as a whistle," returned Hawke cheerily, springing lightly into the plane.
鈥淚t worked slick as a whistle,鈥 she heard one of them say.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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