Here was a squad to lick into shape, to fashion into a team.

Here's another of the fools of a family made a present of to the country-anothercub for me to lick into shape.

He is only valuable as he is licked into shape.

Barcelona needed licking into shape; they needed guarantees.

Edward also was absent, getting licked into shape at school; but to him the loss was nothing.

The Captain sent him out to Maitland to be licked into shape, and this is the result.

I must git the ones I have licked into shape before tryin' my hand upon any more.

As he gradually got his group of officers licked into shape, he found less to do personally.

Thus Theophilus Londonderry was partly his father licked into shape and partly something bigger and more effectively vital.

He fell to watching her again, as if she were some troublesome sentence that needed licking into shape.

And not licked into shape.

He wants licking into shape.

I own, however, that he will require a good deal of licking into shape before he becomes a sailor.

"They make the best wives going when they've been licked into shape."

We're all very well, but we're not the men our fathers were: we need a lot of licking into shape.

"A poor show," said he, "but they may lick into shape.