Talk:a lick of

RFD discussion: August–December 2023
This is basically just lick sense 7. Im guessing we have a separate entry for this because it is almost never pluralized .... no one says "i only did two licks of work" .... but it seems like an unlikely search term, and it's only incoming link is from lick, so almost everyone reading the page has already seen the term defined on the lick page. Note this is similar to a good deal which I would also have expected to find at good deal and which is also rarely if ever pluralized. Even so, I think there must be a better solution for terms like this than having a separate entry that just adds an a or an a and an of. — Soap — 20:30, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 * As with world of difference recently, the plural is better attested than you might think—"two licks of" certainly is ("you ain't got two licks of sense", "I hadn't done two licks of work" , "the only one with two licks of sense" etc.), and so is stuff like "two or three licks of Latin" here. I agree this should be deleted, though perhaps the most user-friendly solution is to use senseid and redirect to the specific sense at lick. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 00:24, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect if you want. Ultimateria (talk) 01:11, 5 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete. Equinox ◑ 11:49, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: redundant to lick. — Sgconlaw (talk) 12:11, 11 November 2023 (UTC)


 * RFD failed. Kept as a redirect Denazz (talk) 21:51, 6 December 2023 (UTC)