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once-over-lightly

[ wuhns-oh-ver-lahyt-lee ]
/ ˈwʌnsˌoʊ vərˈlaɪt li /
SEE SYNONYMS FOR once-over-lightly ON THESAURUS.COM

noun Informal.

a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.

Words related to once-over-lightly

outwardly, scan, read, peruse, skim, feed, survey, graze, nibble, leaf, thumb, apparently, carelessly, casually, hastily, ostensibly, partially, externally, extraneously, frivolously

Words nearby once-over-lightly

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Origin of once-over-lightly

First recorded in 1940–45
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Idioms and Phrases with once over lightly

once over lightly

Cursorily, quickly, as in I did go over the program once over lightly, but perhaps I should read it more carefully. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

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