in one blow
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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 ● Jul. 15, 2022
She couldn’t bear it—to lose both her mother and her childhood home in one blow?
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 11, 2019
Bane's a big brute, and it takes about 15 shots to deliver what he can do in one blow, so Batman had to be less aggressive, more clever.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
The mongoose’s quick reflexes help it dodge the cobra’s defensive bite, and its powerful jaws can dispatch a snake in one blow.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2010
Thus in one blow Elizabeth had been saved from typical English digs, while I looked forward to a lessening of my stomach pains.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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