quick as a wink

Idioms  

1. Also,. 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.

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Example Sentences

“My brutal honesty,” he replied, quick as a wink.

From Washington Post

My mother turned to glance round, but quick as a wink, Mrs. Tomolillo dropped her fat white hands in her lap and started talking vigorously to her friends.

From Literature

That water came right behind us, waltzing up the stairs like it owned the place, and quick as a wink got to swirling around our ankles on the second floor.

From The Guardian

Some of those chaps can reach a dog twenty feet away, and take a nip out of his hide as quick as a wink.

From Project Gutenberg

The inner end is broad and soft and sticky, and he snaps it out and back quick as a wink or a lizard.

From Project Gutenberg

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