单词 | in , with twinkling of an eye |
释义 | > as lemmasin (a), with (a or the) twinkling of an eye b. in the twinkling of an eye, in an instant; formerly also †in (a), with (a or the) twinkling of an eye. Cf. in the twinkling of a look at look n. Phrases 3a. ΚΠ 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9179 Yn twynkelyng of an ye, Yn-to þe cherche gun þey flye. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxxii. 19 In þe twinkeling of an eigh þai fal downe. a1350 Sayings St. Bernard (Harl. 2253) in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 519 In a twynglyng of an eȝe. a1380 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (1892) 673 Wiþ a twynklyng of an eiȝe. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton E v b In the twynklyng of an eye. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 588 The corps..was broughte in to the carte agayne, wyth the twynkeling of an eye. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 191 In twynklyng of ane eye to scip thai went. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 27 With twingling [v.r. twinkling] of ane eye anone, God sall the tak. 1598 R. Marbeck in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 612 In the very twinckling of an eye, both shippe and men were all cast away. 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 11 This clergy would lose,..in the twinkling of an eye, the little remains of influence which they yet retain. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. iv. 52 A book, a picture, a memory, puts us, in the twinkling of an eye, in the midst of the most enchanting solitudes. 1904 Times 7 Sept. 7/4 Events..transformed Japan..in the twinkling of an eye..into a modern State. < as lemmas |
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