单词 | quick as a wink |
释义 | quick as a winkSEE SYNONYMS FOR quick as a wink ON THESAURUS.COM Also, quick as a bunny or a flash. 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. Words nearby quick as a winkquiche Lorraine, Quichua, quick, quick-and-dirty, quick and the dead, quick as a wink, quick assets, quick bread, quick-change artist, quick-cure resin, quick draw The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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