
The phrase in the twinkling of an eye means in an instant. The gunmen who shot into the party, who were 16 and 19 at the time, were eventually sentenced to a combined 400 years in prison. Breon never got to have her first boyfriend or attend her prom. “At that moment, in the twinkling of an eye, everyone’s lives, some of their destinies were interrupted,” Taylor Jones said.So with a painless change of name, and in the twinkling of an eye, one becomes a white American.– Press Citizen

Baldwin (“The Price of the Ticket”) writes: “They come through Ellis Island, where Giorgio becomes Joe, Pappavasiliu becomes Palmer, Evangelos becomes Evans, Goldsmith becomes Smith or Gold, and Avakian becomes King.

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples at a fast speed fast He drives too fast for my liking. She has really high energy, but then right around her bedtime, in the twinkling of an eye, she’ll fall right asleep. If something happens in the twinkling of an eye, it happens very quickly: Microprocessors do the calculations in the twinkling of an eye. I don’t have that problem with my daughter. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for My Little Pony Twinkle Eyed 35th Anniversary 1980s G1 MLP Classic Comb Box at the best online. I tried to put my son to bed at his normal bedtime, but he just wouldn’t fall asleep.

Two co-workers use the expression while talking about their children.
