in a flash
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in a flash
- (idiomatic) Instantaneously; very quickly; in almost no time.
- It happened so fast that it was all over in a flash.
- 1987, “Sri Ramanasramam Charities”, in Mountain Path, volume 24, page 152:
- Therefore its completeness, though instantaneous, was total. His realisation was in a flash, but it did not vanish like a flash.
- Synonyms: fulgurant, fast as lightning, lightning fast, lightning-quick, quick as a flash
- Synonyms: quick as a flash, lightning fast
Translations
very quickly — see quick as a flash