He is only valuable as he is licked into shape.

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.

And not licked into shape.

These islands had risen from the sea, been licked into shape probably by earthquakes, and coming gradually together, had formed a continent.

If there were ten of you, you couldn't get things licked into shape in time to get in on the grain carrying this season.

The clumsy rustic is soon licked into shape, and leaves his barrack, to return to the fields, a soldier and a more self-reliant man.

He had always been of the opinion that Nora had good stuff in her which would come out once she had been licked into shape.

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

" Licked into shape" refers to the tale we give in our account of the bear.

"Yes, he's old enough to go to school and be licked into shape," said Major Ralston brutally.