in one blow

Idioms  

1. see at one stroke.

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Example Sentences

A solution, some analysts from the Rocket Force argued in 2021, was to also build clusters of launch silos for missiles, forcing U.S. forces to try to detect which ones housed real missiles and which ones had dummies, making it “even harder to wipe them out in one blow.”

From New York Times

You and your wife should see a financial planner, who can help you ensure that she has enough to live on and will not spend all of her savings in one blow.

From Slate

“Everything we’ve been striving for for years has been wiped out in one blow,” said Hong Su-yeol, a South Korean activist and resource recycling consultant who has been urging an overhaul of the industry for about 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times

"In one blow, with these border closures, those ties were prohibited. Of course people feel that in our city."

From BBC

Known as large vessel occlusions, or LVOs, they can obliterate large parts of the brain responsible for movement, speech and decision-making in one blow because they are in the main blood-supplying arteries.

From Washington Post