once-over-lightly

[wuhns-oh-ver-lahyt-lee]

noun Informal.

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

Origin of once-over-lightly

First recorded in 1940–45

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