blink of an eye (usually uncountable, plural blinks of an eye)
- (idiomatic) A moment (a very short period of time).
- Just a blink of an eye later, he was gone.
2002, Iron & Wine (lyrics and music), “Upward Over the Mountain”, in The Creek Drank the Cradle[1]:Mother, remember the blink of an eye / When I breathed through your body?
moment (a very short period of time)
- Afrikaans: oomblik (af)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 眨眼 (zh) (zhǎyǎn), 瞬間／瞬间 (zh) (shùnjiān)
- Danish: øjeblik (da) n
- Dutch: ogenblik (nl) n
- Finnish: silmänräpäys (fi)
- French: clin d’œil (fr) m
- German: Augenblick (de) m, Wimpernschlag (de) m, Augenschlag m
- Hungarian: szempillantás (hu)
- Italian: batter d'occhio m, batter d'occhi m, battito di ciglia m
- Japanese: あっという間 (ja) (あっというま, a-tto iu ma)
- Low German:
- German Low German: Ogenblick m
- Maori: matakarapa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: øyeblikk (no) n
- Nynorsk: augeblikk n, augneblikk n, augeblink n, augneblink n, augeblunk n, augneblunk n
- Polish: okamgnienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: piscar de olhos m
- Romanian: clipă (ro) f, clipită (ro) f
- Russian: мгнове́ние о́ка (ru) n (mgnovénije óka), мгнове́ние (ru) n (mgnovénije)
- Swedish: ögonblick (sv) n
- Turkish: an (tr)
- Yiddish: אויגנבליק (yi) m (oygnblik)
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