in the twinkling of an eye

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Immediately;instantaneously.c.1596–1598(date written),W[illiam] Shakespeare,The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice.[…](First Quarto),[London]:[…]J[ames]Roberts[forThomas Heyes], published1600,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii]:Father, come, ile take my leaue of the Iewin the twinkling of an eye.2007April 28, Hugh Muir,The Guardian:All my dreams for him have been cut shortin the twinkling of an eye. Why was my son murdered?

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