blink of an eye

Questions about blink of an eye

What does blink of an eye mean?

blink of an eye means "a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)".

What is another word for blink of an eye?

Close synonyms include flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blink of an eye a common word?

blink of an eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.