at one stroke

Idioms

Also, at one blow;;. At the same time, with one forceful or quick action. For example, I managed to please both buyer and seller at one stroke. The first term is the older version, so used by Chaucer; at one blow was used by Shakespeare.

Example Sentences

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At the summit in Hanoi, he was seeking “the big deal”—the denuclearization of the country at one stroke.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

By stripping the world’s fifth largest economy of its complex foreign trade relationships at one stroke, it would spook financial markets and dislocate supply chains across Europe and beyond.

From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2019

Users can search all these sources at one stroke through a "universal search".

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2010

This week the C.P.S. plan scored a noteworthy coup: at one stroke it spread over much of the West.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prime fault of old methods is, at one stroke, cut away.

From Seed Thoughts for Singers by Tubbs, Frank Herbert

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