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Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
in no time
- (idiomatic) Very soon.
Just give me a ring and I'll be over in no time.
- (idiomatic) Very quickly.
- Synonym: in a flash
1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC:My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:Neil Lennon and his players have, in no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.
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very soon
- Catalan: en un tres i no res (ca)
- Czech: hned (cs), okamžitě (cs), raz dva (cs), coby dup
- Dutch: in ijltempo, in een mum van tijd
- Finnish: tuota pikaa (fi)
- French: en un rien de temps (fr)
- Galician: decontado
- German: im Nu (de), in einem Nu, in null Komma nichts (de)
- Hungarian: azonnal (hu), máris (hu), nyomban (hu), rögtön (hu), egy szempillantás alatt, seperc alatt
- Polish: migiem (pl), w mgnieniu oka (pl)
- Romanian: într-o clipă
- Spanish: en cero coma, en un santiamén (es)
- Swedish: på nolltid (sv)
- Turkish: anında (tr)
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