"A lick of paint" nghĩa là gì?

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"A (new) lick of paint" = vệt sơn mới -> tân trang vẻ ngoài, ngoại hình của cái gì. 

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Sharing before and after photos on the Mrs Hinch Made Me Do It Facebook group, Shraiden Leesha explained it cost her nothing to upcycle (nâng cấp, tái chế đồ vật), using just wallpaper and a lick of paint. 

Badly fitting, cracked (bị nứt) and weather-worn (bào mòn bởi thời tiết) doors are a source of heat loss (thoát nhiệt). “Fill them in with woodfiller (trám trét gỗ) and freshen up with a lick of paint,” says Allan Reid, the director of Art Windows & Doors in Glasgow. 

Banbury Bowl acting manager (chỉ đạo diễn xuất), Becky Arnold, said: "We've done all new lighting, given it a lick of paint, removed all the old bowling chair furniture and put the booths in, so it has been quite an interesting process because every time you walk in the building something new was here or something had changed." 


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