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in_a_flash

in a flash

English

Adjective

in a flash (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Instantaneous, very quick, in a very short amount of time.
    • 1987, in Mountain Path, volume 24, Sri Ramanasramam Charities, page 152:
      Therefore its completeness, though instantaneous, was total. His realisation was in a flash, but it did not vanish like a flash.

Adverb

in a flash (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Very quickly
    It happened so fast that it was all over in a flash.

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