in no time
English
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Prepositional phrase
edit- (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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] 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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edit- “in no time”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.