look-over

• “When the deadline looms, leap into action, throw something together, give it a quick look-over and send it out.”

  White House Spellcheck FAIL. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

• “I'm not sure how the portable OO has changed since then, so the instructions may not even work for a modern install, but it's worth a look-over.”

  Turn Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives | Lifehacker Australia

• “To save money, ask an experienced real-estate agent to give the house a good look-over instead, says Brandi Pearl Thompson , an agent in the Chattanooga, Tenn., area.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Home Sellers Need Inspections, Too

• “The captain, a native Newfoundlander like myself, was a gruff fellow, and after giving me a cursory look-over when I first came aboard promptly dismissed me from his mind.”

  On Desperate Seas « A Fly in Amber

• “The map was stamped "CONFIDENTIAL," so we naturally gave it a long look-over.”

  The Washington Post: Who will refudiate the displaced foreign travelers?

• “Stuck in the hallway, with no escape in sight, I give her a real look-over and notice her skinny legs look like tent poles.”

  Simon & Schuster: Milo

• “  I give myself a look-over, a smell, on the way down.”

  Fictionaut: And We Sell Apples 1977

• “I demand that you translate everything the “old Whitey” is saying," a man in a cheap Mao jacket said, giving us the look-over with a jaundiced eye.”

  LOOKING FOR GORBACHEV

• “Amazon or another e-reader company would be remiss in not giving Pixel Qi tech a good look-over, just as the New York Times is along with other technologies.”

  The New York Times envisions version 2.0 of the newspaper » Nieman Journalism Lab

• “PT's correspondent is right -- I will be giving the mailing piece a look-over later.”

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