<span class="searchmatch">blinks</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> plural <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> (usually uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">blinks</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>) (idiomatic) A moment (a very short period <span class="searchmatch">of</span> time). Synonyms: bat <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>, eyeblink; see...
in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> (idiomatic) Immediately, instantaneously. 2013 October 19, Ben Smith, BBC Sport: Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded...
bat <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> (usually uncountable, plural bats <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>) Synonym <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>....
the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go." in the blink of an <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> in the twinkling <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> — see in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> + <span class="searchmatch">eyed</span>. <span class="searchmatch">blink</span>-<span class="searchmatch">eyed</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">blink</span>-<span class="searchmatch">eyed</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">blink</span>-<span class="searchmatch">eyed</span>) Habitually winking. c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine...
twinkling of an eye. Why was my son murdered? in the wink <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>, in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span> immediately, instantaneously — see in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>...
(third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">blinks</span>, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">blinked</span>) (intransitive) To close and reopen both...
[mɡnɐˈvʲenʲɪje ˈokə] мгнове́ние о́ка • (mgnovénije óka) n (figuratively) <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>, snap, jiffy в мгнове́ние о́ка ― v mgnovénije óka ― in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>...
in un battibaleno in a flash; in the <span class="searchmatch">blink</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">an</span> <span class="searchmatch">eye</span>...