Synonyms:
blink_of_an_eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split_second, trice, twinkling, wink, New_York_minute
Meaning: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
Usage examples
He was on his stool in a jiffy, driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.
He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.
So at the proper time Popopo transported himself in a jiffy to a great city, where he began wandering about the streets.
In a jiffy I had slipped over the side and curled up in the fore-sheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment she shoved off.
"Wait a jiffy," called the Woozy, and then it went to a tree and hugged it with its front paws, so that its body couldn't be dragged around by the pull.
Now the doctor hurriedly took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and in a jiffy had Zip and the molasses ball in his hands and was holding it so that the water could not get to Zip's head.