no sooner ... than
C1 used to show that one thing happens immediately after another thing:
No sooner had I started mowing the lawn than it started raining.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Simultaneous and consecutive
- accompany
- all the while idiom
- along
- along the way idiom
- alternate
- go
- in rotation idiom
- in tandem idiom
- in the process idiom
- live
- once
- one after another idiom
- over
- synchronous
- tandem
- the minute (that) idiom
- through
- throughout
- together
- under
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