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quick as a wink

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Also, quick as a bunny or a flash. Very speedily, as in He was out of here quick as a wink, or She answered, quick as a bunny. These similes have largely replaced the earlier quick as lightning, although quick as a flash no doubt alludes to it (also see like greased lightning), and quick as thought, now obsolete. The bunny variant dates from the mid-1800s, the others from the late 1800s.

Words related to quick as a wink

breakneck, hasty, brisk, fast, speedy, expeditious, swift, willingly, easily, freely, eagerly, promptly, gladly, immediately, cheerfully, flying, prompt, express, active, precipitate

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