slick as a whistle

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A proverbial simile, in common use throughout the United States. To do anything as slick as a whistle, is to do it very smoothly, perfectly, adroitly.


You know I told you in my last letter, I was going to bring Miss Mary up to the chalk at Christmas. Well, I done it as slick as a whistle.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 94.

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