Idiom
in the wink of an eye
Meaning
instantaneously, extremely quickly
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The cat ran away in the wink of an eye.”
“The magician finished his final trick in the wink of an eye, leaving the audience completely amazed.”
“The storm clouds gathered and vanished in the wink of an eye, leaving the landscape bathed in sudden, unexpected sunlight.”
Examples
simple
“The cat ran away in the wink of an eye.”
contextual
“The magician finished his final trick in the wink of an eye, leaving the audience completely amazed.”
complex
“The storm clouds gathered and vanished in the wink of an eye, leaving the landscape bathed in sudden, unexpected sunlight.”
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