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twinkling of an eye
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twinkling
of
an
eye
A short period of time.
1592
,
Thomas Kyd
,
The Spanish Tragedie
, act I, lines
87–88
:
Ghost: No sooner had she spoke but we were heere, / I wot not how, in
twinkling of an eye
.
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