tick and flick
n.— «Unallocated offenders are expected to report to a community justice office, where a duty officer, usually with little knowledge of them, ticks them off after asking basic questions—a process known as “tick and flick.”» —“Violent offenders unsupervised” by Amanda O’Brien The Australian (Perth) Apr. 10, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif once observed that “The duty of the writer…is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet.” This is part of a complete episode.
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