Splitting the lick
lickety-split
lickety-split
Lickety-split | Definition of Lickety-split by Merriam-Webster
www.tropocollagen.eu: Splitting the Licks: Improvising and Arranging Songs on the 5- String Banjo (): Janet Davis: Books.
Description:This is an American phrase in origin, possibly with Scottish influences, and isn't commonly used in other countries. Lickety may be taken from lick, meaning speed - as in 'going at quite a lick'. That usage is known by the early 19th century; for example, this piece from Thomas Donaldson's Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, Etymology First attested about , in the US, as a fanciful alteration of lick and the verb split.
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