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

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

Now I'll put a clock on him afore he knows it, I'll go right into him as slick as a whistle, and play him to the eend of my line like a trout.

From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Here I've got everything fixed as slick as a whistle, and it took work, believe me.

From The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart

If it hadn’t been for her water-tight compartments that were left uninjured, she would have gone down to the bottom as slick as a whistle.

From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton