twinkling of an eye en · NOUN
Meanings
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A short period of time.
Ghost: No sooner had she spoke but we were heere, / I wot not how, in twinkling of an eye.
1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, act I, lines 87–88:
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Ghost: No sooner had she spoke but we were heere, / I wot not how, in twinkling of an eye.1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, act I, lines 87–88: