in a flash

idiom

informal
: very quickly or suddenly
I'll be back in a flash.
The idea came to me in a flash.

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Xabi Alonso tried to press him as the ball arrived, but he was gone in a flash. Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 The previous day, there had been a tragedy in Texas, in which young girls at a summer camp had drowned in a flash flood. Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 Sax worked tirelessly on his baseball craft, growing from a 5-foot-3, 105-pound high school freshman into a brick, relentlessly honing his skills and driven by the the fear that his career could be over in a flash. Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025 That fateful robbery, first teased in a flash-forward during the premiere, is doomed from the start. Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for in a flash

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“In a flash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20a%20flash. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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