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To: UPTICK who wrote (112734)	4/26/2008 5:04:35 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 312809

It means very quickly. It's origin may be from Norwegian where the term "lik" meant even, or equal. So the phrase likety spit might mean as fast as spit in hybrid pidgin norse. It is also considered to be from the lick of a whip. Which is some fast. Lick i.e. give him a licking.. meant to rain blows on the poor sod. A licking is a beating. That is as old as the 1500's. * Quick as greased lightning (although "quick as lightning" dates to 1763, the grease was added in the 1840s) * Before you can say "Jack Robinson" * In a hustle * In a jiffy * Pronto * Like a house afire * Hell bent (the variation "Hell bent for leather" doesn't appear until the 1900s.) * Immediately if not sooner. ******************************

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