Jack Robinsonnoun
uk/ˌdʒæk ˈrɒb.ɪn.sən/us/ˌdʒæk ˈrɑː.bɪn.sən/old-fashionedbefore you can/could say Jack Robinson
used to refer to something being done or happening very quickly:
I put the dish of food on the floor, and before you could say Jack Robinson, the dog had eaten it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fast and rapid
- a mile a minute idiom
- apace
- as fast as your legs would carry you idiom
- as if it is going out of style idiom
- at a rate of knots idiom
- crash
- fleet
- have a heavy foot idiom
- high-speed
- hotfoot
- in the twinkling of an eye idiom
- lickety-split
- lightning
- like a shot idiom
- mile
- smartly
- souped-up
- spread like wildfire idiom
- swift
- tilt
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