in a flash en · ADP
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) Instantaneously; very quickly; in almost no time.
“I bet you want to come and live here in this big house in the lap of luxury with me and Biggie, don’t you?” “NO,” replied the boy in a flash.
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:Therefore its completeness, though instantaneous, was total. His realisation was in a flash, but it did not vanish like a flash.
1987, “Sri Ramanasramam Charities”, in Mountain Path, volume 24, page 152:It happened so fast that it was all over in a flash.
Then in a flash Tilehurst realised that Sprout would quite probably refer to Dixson—possibly to ask if he had been heard from since he had gone, or some equally inconvenient question.
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
Synonyms
quick as a flash · lightning-quick · lightning fast · fast as lightning · fulgurant
Translations (18)
es a la volada (very quickly) · de blitzartig (very quickly) · it in un lampo (very quickly) · fi silmänräpäyksessä (very quickly) · es de volada (very quickly) · es en un segundo (very quickly) · eo tuje (very quickly) · es al toque (very quickly) · it in un baleno (very quickly) · pt rapidamente (very quickly) · es altiro (very quickly) · pl w lot (very quickly) · el αστραπιαία (very quickly) · fr en un éclair (very quickly) · de im Nu (very quickly) · es en un santiamén (very quickly) · cmn 瞬間 /瞬间 (very quickly) · de blitzschnell (very quickly)