twinkling of an eye

English

Idiom

twinkling of an eye

  1. A short period of time.
    • 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, act I, lines 87–88:
      Ghost: No sooner had she spoke but we were heere, / I wot not how, in twinkling of an eye.
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