num piscar de olhos — meaning in English
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English meaning
- jiffy noun (informal) A very short amount of time.
Senses
num piscar de olhos is used for these senses in English:
- in a jiffy Very quickly; without delay.
- in the blink of an eye (idiomatic) Immediately, instantaneously.
- jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
jiffy — full definition
- noun (informal) A very short amount of time.
- noun A precise unit of time set by a computer's internal clock, often one hundredth of a second.
- noun The length of one cycle of alternating electric current, either a fiftieth or sixtieth of a second.
- noun The time light takes to travel a set short distance, often one centimetre.
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