last licks

last licks

1. The action or actions taken during the final opportunity to do something. I have to leave in five minutes, so let me get in my last licks on the pinball machine.
2. The final notes of a song. I can still hear the last licks of the encore at last night's concert ringing in my ears.
See also: last, lick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • score big
  • automatic
  • autopilot
  • be on automatic pilot
  • do something in a vacuum
  • in a vacuum
  • vacuum
  • shoot (oneself) in the foot
  • shoot oneself in the foot
  • shoot yourself in the foot
References in periodicals archive
Twelve stadiums in 11 cities spanning the European portion of the world's largest country are ready after getting their last licks of paint.
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David Letterman gets his last licks in at the Emmys, as new faces join in with the old favorites, skewering the news, tackling social issues and leaving a legacy of memorable moments.
Finales Give Jolt to Variety Nominees: Colbert, Letterman say farewell as newer faces emerge
Radio Shack, for example, will close stores, the cupcake business will keep crumbling, yogurt won't get last licks, and some of the 'better' burgers may not have it "their way."
Doc-in-the-box brands seeing Long Island demand
THE bats have been re-homed, the waiting room chairs arranged and the last licks of paint applied.
Ready to start a new chapter; First patients for Acre Mills site
Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs: Baseball's Grand (and not-so-grand) Finales is an amazing, year-by-year collection of baseball's greatest (and not-exactly-great) final acts.
Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs
The last licks of paint are going on and the speakers are all plugged in.
Former bingo hall set for a full house
The 72-person firm, which has almost doubled its workforce within the last year, was busy in mid-November applying the last licks of new paint in preparation for an open house celebrating their new expanded location and the unveiling of its new Rotocan rotary blast hole drill bit.
Precise sets new course with drill bit
Round Six: Time remains for a few last licks. Skinner asserts in a 1966 paper that the consequences of behavior over the millennia have selected for genetic variations that contribute to so-called "innate" behaviors, and external reinforcements shape individual "learned" behaviors.
Skinner boxing; take your seats, please. The guru of behaviorism is set to challenge the palookas who discarded his scientific approach