Idiom
blink of an eye
Meaning
A moment (a very short period of time).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The summer vacation ended in the blink of an eye.”
“The car sped past us and disappeared around the corner in the blink of an eye.”
“The grand empire, which had stood for centuries, vanished into history in the blink of an eye when the revolution began.”
Examples
simple
“The summer vacation ended in the blink of an eye.”
contextual
“The car sped past us and disappeared around the corner in the blink of an eye.”
complex
“The grand empire, which had stood for centuries, vanished into history in the blink of an eye when the revolution began.”
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