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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With just one little flip of a switch, these handy little kitchen gadgets make food scraps and kitchen waste disappear in a flash. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 June 2025 Less than two years later, concert tours everywhere disappeared in a flash. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2025 What begins in a flash of insight, often through the creative adaptation of existing systems, soon broadens outward into multiple ideas and expressions, like a river into a delta. Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 1 June 2025 Ahead, these are our favorite low-maintenance, fast-growing perennials that will spread and fill in your garden in a flash. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 June 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 9 Jul. 2025.

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