in the blink of an eye

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   very quickly; in a short time

   There's really no point in doing anything in life, because it's all over in the blink of an eye...

   I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye

In the movies · 2

• I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eyeTroy2004
• There's really no point in doing anything in life, because it's all over in the blink of an eye...The Grand Budapest Hotel2014
• A super being who could move in the blink of an eye.Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox2013
• Fill my brain with lies to pass the time, in the blink of an eye, and an eye blink in excruciatingly slow motion.I'm Thinking of Ending Things2020
• No, you're allowed to blink. It's just eye contact.The Mitchells vs. the Machines2021
• He didn't blink an eye.Drive2011
• stripped away in the blink of an eye,The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023
• but there's gonna be another ice age very soon, in about, say, another 3,000 years, but that's the blink of an eye.The Trip2011

Learn it in full scenes

• The Trip2011
  • Steve and Rob Set Off
  • Steve and Rob Share a Room
  • The Michael Caine Impression Duel

From the same entry

• blink away
• on the blink

More idioms

• in the event of
• in the public eye
• not for a minute
• play hard to get
• step out of line
• the ins and outs
• there is more to than meets the eye
• throw under the bus
• what makes tick
• in private
• a world of difference
• at the back of your mind