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in the wink of an eye

in the wink of an eye adverb: instantaneously; extremely quickly.

Adverb

in the wink of an eye (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Instantaneously; extremely quickly.
    • "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and...1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

in the wink of an eye meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

in the wink of an eye in Bengali

তাত্ক্ষণিকভাবে, অত্যন্ত দ্রুত

in the wink of an eye in Malayalam

very soon, very quickly, in a second
കണ്ണടുച്ചതുറക്കും മുമ്പ്, ഇതാന്നു പറയുന്നതിനകം, ഒറ്റനിമിഷംകൊണ്ട്, കണ്ണടച്ചു തുറക്കുന്നതിനിടയിൽ, ക്ഷണത്തിൽ, ഒരു ഞൊടിയിടയിൽ

Synonyms of in the wink of an eye

Questions about in the wink of an eye

What does in the wink of an eye mean?
In the wink of an eye means instantaneously; extremely quickly.
What is in the wink of an eye in Bengali?
In the wink of an eye in Bengali is তাত্ক্ষণিকভাবে, অত্যন্ত দ্রুত. See In the wink of an eye meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is in the wink of an eye?
In the wink of an eye is an adverb.

Words near in the wink of an eye in the dictionary

  1. in the way of
  2. in the weeds
  3. in the wild
  4. in the wind
  5. in the wind's eye
  6. in the wink of an eye
  7. in the works
  8. in the world
  9. in the worst way
  10. in the wrong
  11. in the wrong place at the wrong time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the wink of an eye (page history and authors); in the wink of an eye (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the wink of an eye (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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