| 词汇 | quick as a dog can lick a dish |
| 词源 | quick as a dog can lick a dish. Rapidly, very quickly. Erskine Caldwell wrote in Jenny by Nature (1961): “There’s not a female alive who can be trusted when they’ve got man fever—they’ll take a man away from you quick as a dog can lick a dish.” |
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