slick as a whistle

Idioms  

1. 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.

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slick as a whistle

I reached back under and picked up the first pig, slick as a whistle.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

You let me perpose Miss Matchin's name and then go and tell her father that I put it through, and it'll be done slick as a whistle.

From The Bread-winners A Social Study by John Hay

I went to work at it, an, after a leetle wile, it went off like grease, jest as slick as a whistle.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith

You can be there to-night, slick as a whistle.

From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Albert Walter Tolman

"We surely caught you slick as a whistle," remarked one of the sailors.

From Billy Whiskers' Adventures by Paul Hawthorne