| 单词 | blink and you'll miss it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblink and you'll miss it blink and you'll miss it and variants: used to describe or designate something which is small or insignificant, or lasts for a very short amount of time, esp. a fleeting appearance by an actor in a film, etc. Often attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [phrase] > extremely small blink and you'll miss it1935 1935 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 28 Aug. 10/1 Blink and you'll miss him. Here he co—there he—he's gone! 1953 Frederick (Maryland) Post 4 Feb. 2/1 Fredericktonians who go down for it, will see Biro on stage for two brief scenes... He says ‘Don't blink or you'll miss me.’ 1979 Michigan Alumnus Jan. 7/2 The town is of the ‘blink and you'll miss it’ genre. 1993 I. L. Allen City in Slang x. 254 East Jesus..is a name for such a god-forsaken place that is so small that ‘if you blink your eyes you miss it’. 2010 E. Decter & L. J. Burns Hot Mess xi. 297 Nobody remembers her blink-and-you'll miss it role in the horror flick Ritual. < as lemmas |
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