blink-and-you-miss-it

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blink-and-you-miss-it (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Barely visible because gone too quickly.
    The famous actor's blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in the short film is little known.
    The blink-and-you-miss-it town is located between two major highways.
    • 2015, Susan Wittig Albert, Bittersweet, Penguin, →ISBN, page 40:
      Now, driving down the shadowy street, appreciating its early-morning peace and quiet, she reached down to the truck's cup holder and picked up the mug of hot coffee, Utopia was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it towns, on a road that didn't go much of anywhere.

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