hop, skip, and a jump

I felt so different when I shut your books, even though it was but a kind of 'hop-skip-and-jump' read.

He will probably be "resting his mind" with an ephemeral novel or the discursive hop-skip-and-jump reading of current periodicals.

He came on with a hop-skip-and-jump that seemed to make him fairly skim over the ground.

Four or five of the rabbits have come together for a turn at hop-skip-and-jump.

Ben's gait was the hop-skip-and-jump—proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high.