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

"As slick as a whistle," returned Hawke cheerily, springing lightly into the plane.

From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon Stuart

Without a quiver he cut into his thigh, put in his two thumbs, "and," he said, "I flirted that ball out as slick as a whistle, at the cost of nary a cent!"

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

The starter worked, and she got into action as slick as a whistle, Dan said.

From The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude W. Morrison

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

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