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in the blink of an eye

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in the blink of an eye
extremely quickly. In the blink of an eye the handsome prince was transformed into an ugly frog.
See also: blink, eye


in the blink of an eye
extremely quickly. There was a huge "boom" and in the blink of an eye the buildings were gone.
See also: blink, eye


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Maliki would have become the most important figure in Iraq in the blink of an eye, the one person everyone would have had to deal with.
Because of the wealth of detail and the nature of Hitler's strategy, the novel is slow-moving, yet it provides an interesting record of how life can change, not so much in the blink of an eye, but so gradually that people are slow to recognize what they have given up--which is, of course, always an interesting parallel for modern times.
9/05), once more opens his fantastical cabinet of invention, this time for a foray to the island-bound city Orokos, where probability storms change the topography or the inhabitants in the blink of an eye.
 
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