in no time

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in no time

1. (idiomatic) Very soon.

   Just give me a ring and I'll be over in no time.

2. (idiomatic) Very quickly.

   Synonym: in a flash

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

   • 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:

     Neil Lennon and his players have, in no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.

Synonyms

• in no time flat
• in nothing flat

Translations

very soon

• Catalan: en un tres i no res (ca)
• Czech: hned (cs), okamžitě (cs), raz dva (cs), coby dup
• Dutch: in ijltempo, in een mum van tijd
• Finnish: tuota pikaa (fi)
• French: en un rien de temps (fr)
• Galician: decontado
• German: im Nu (de), in einem Nu, in null Komma nichts (de)
• Hungarian: azonnal (hu), máris (hu), nyomban (hu), rögtön (hu), egy szempillantás alatt, seperc alatt
• Polish: migiem (pl), w mgnieniu oka (pl)
• Romanian: într-o clipă
• Spanish: en cero coma, en un santiamén
• Swedish: på nolltid (sv)
• Turkish: anında (tr)

Further reading

• “in no time”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.