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

Aside from war and politics, this movement�which at one stroke transplanted factories, colleges and Government to the heart of a primitive continent, may be a milestone in the history of Asiatic civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have preserved an old, substantial building, enlarged, built around, and beautified it according to their needs, but never attempted to build an ideal house at one stroke, according to the rules of pure reason.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

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