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Meanings of lick into shape in anglès

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Usage of lick into shape in anglès
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Here was a squad to lick into shape, to fashion into a team.
The Rules of the Game
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Here's another of the fools of a family made a present of to the country-anothercub for me to lick into shape.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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He is only valuable as he is licked into shape.
Love, Life & Work / Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Nat...
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Barcelona needed licking into shape; they needed guarantees.
The Guardian
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Edward also was absent, getting licked into shape at school; but to him the loss was nothing.
Dream Days
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The Captain sent him out to Maitland to be licked into shape, and this is the result.
On the Firing Line
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I must git the ones I have licked into shape before tryin' my hand upon any more.
Rod of the Lone Patrol
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As he gradually got his group of officers licked into shape, he found less to do personally.
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
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Thus Theophilus Londonderry was partly his father licked into shape and partly something bigger and more effectively vital.
The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]
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He fell to watching her again, as if she were some troublesome sentence that needed licking into shape.
Tommy and Grizel
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And not licked into shape.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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He wants licking into shape.
Of Human Bondage
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I own, however, that he will require a good deal of licking into shape before he becomes a sailor.
Paddy Finn
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"They make the best wives going when they've been licked into shape."
The Canadian / Photoplay title of The Land of Promise
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We're all very well, but we're not the men our fathers were: we need a lot of licking into shape.
The Imperialist
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"A poor show," said he, "but they may lick into shape.
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
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