on a promise

Meaning

on a promise

(UK, colloquial) Looking forward to sexual intercourse later.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept? Bernhard Schlink

Words in the phrase

on a promise

Close letter words and terms

on a platter on a positive note on a probation period on a regular basis on a reimbursable basis on a roll