one fell swoop | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Onestroke; oneactionoreventthatachievesoraccomplishesmanyresults.Changing the oil lubricates the engine and removes debris inone fell swoop.1922February,James Joyce,Ulysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company,[…],→OCLC:, Episode 16:...they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could inone fell swoopat a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.1955June, Robert F. Legget, “Dieselisation of Canadian Railways”, inRailway Magazine, page417:There can be few examples in the history of railways of a reduction of sixteen hours in the running time of one train, atone fell swoop, but this has been achieved by the Canadian Pacific Railway with its transcontinental train service, an advance without any parallel in the record of Canada's railways, and the first major timetable change of any sort for several decades.2023July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, inRAIL, number988, page59:Remember that these trains will serve Aintree on race days and both Anfield and Goodison Park (and soon Everton FC's new stadium), so there will be times when they are packed to the gunwales with passengers - albeit, disgorging their footfall at one station inone fell swoop.

Examples:

EN: With one fell swoop, everything was gone.
ES: Lo perdí todo de un solo golpe.
EN: We'll round them all up with one fell swoop.
ES: Vamos a cazarlos a todos de golpe.
EN: Massacred in one fell swoop.
ES: A masacrarnos con un golpe mortal.
EN: I, who am revolutionizing evolution... circumambulating it at one fell swoop.
ES: A mí, que he hecho un descubrimiento revolucionario que permite viajar de un lado a otro en un santiamén.
EN: Providence has come down on me in one fell swoop.
ES: Acaba de hacerme pagar todo de un solo golpe.
EN: What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?
ES: Todos mis polluelos con su madre de un cruel zarpazo
EN: At the riverbank, in one fell swoop he frees himself of Salvi's body.
ES: Coge el cuerpo y se deshace fácilmente de él.
EN: Behind me, there was no longer familiar day-to-day life which one can leave behind in one fell swoop.
ES: Tras mí ya no había una vida cotidiana, familiar, de la que se puede escapar.
EN: Lost ancestral seat. Fortune, horses, one fell swoop.
ES: Suerte, caballos, a la vez.
EN: And suddenly, in one fell swoop, I realized I'd been wrong all along,
ES: Me había imaginado... todo este tiempo que solo rivalizaba con tu sed de gloria. he comprendido que era falso lo que pensaba.
EN: I'd had a terrible run of luck at the track... started out the season with $5,000... dropped down to train fare... and made the fatal mistake of trying to get healthy in one fell swoop... on a three-to-one shot named Cinnabar.
ES: Tuve una racha terrible de mala suerte empecé la temporada con $5.000 perdí casi todo y cometí el error fatal de tratar de recuperar todo de una sola vez apostando tres a uno a un caballo llamado Cinnabar.
EN: It'd be great to blast apart Moriyama, Iwabuchi and the head honcho himself in one fell swoop.
ES: ¿Hará saltar a Moriyama, Iwabuchi en un sólo intento?
EN: If he's the mastermind, he can kill you all in one fell swoop.
ES: Si es el cerebro, puede acabar con vosotros de golpe.
EN: You getting rid of all your children in one fell swoop? You heard right, Hairy Willie.
ES: ¿Te deshaces de todos tus hijos de una sola vez?
EN: He got the Lion and the Crab in one fell swoop.
ES: Obtuvo el León y el Cangrejo de un sólo golpe.

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