[in a flash] also [in a trice] {adv. phr.} Very suddenly.
Wewere watching the bird eat the crumbs; then I sneezed, and he was gonein a flash.
Bob was looking over his notes for English class andin a flash he knew what he would write his paper about.
Топик my morning.
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