The phrase "a simple flick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quick, light movement or action, often with a finger or hand.
Example: "With a simple flick of her wrist, she sent the paper airplane soaring across the room."
Alternatives: "a quick swipe" or "a light touch."
On a switchblade, the blade pops out at the simple flip of a switch; with gravity knives, the blades come out by a simple flick of the wrist.
WORKING on a new piece in his studio, Phil Kline begins, as he often does, with a simple flick of a switch.
But it was a simple flick of the wrist from Mr. Berger that ended Mr. Goldberg's bid for ping-pong glory as he scrambled to retrieve a well-placed drop shot.
As the old joke has it, men can be turned on with a simple flick of a switch while women require attention to a battery of dials and buttons.
The medium allows us to adopt a perspective that is not merely omniscient but truly godlike: Ware's characters remain trapped in their tiny panels, but we are above them, looking in, and can see what they can't — the travails that await them — with a simple flick of our eyes across the page".
Who would have thought a simple flick of the wrist would be a killer app?
With a smile creeping back on his face, he said, "but I eventually got their attention by creating a unique A/B switch so they could hear the difference--with the simple flick of a switch--between my Monster cables and the cheap ones included with most stereo packages.
Multitouch screens are all the rage as companies such as Microsoft and Apple race to build gadgets and operating systems that respond to the simple flick of a finger.
"Amazing how it goes from awesome to lame by the simple flick of a switch," opined another Reddit user.
This can change, with a simple touch flick of a smartphone.
From Cleopatra to Adele, this iconic makeup look can take you from innocent to bombshell with a simple sultry flick of a black eyeliner pen.
