Meaning of IN NO TIME - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English when we say something is done "in no time" it means that it's done very,
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very quickly.
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So "in no time" means very quickly.
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A good example would be if you brought your car to a garage to get repaired and if the
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mechanic said it would take a day to fix your car and then he calls you half an hour later
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and says, "It's done!
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Your car is fixed!"
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You would say, "Wow!
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You got that done in no time!"
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And there's a couple variations of this.
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You could say "in no time flat" and you could say "in no time at all".
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So you could say, "Wow!
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You got my car fixed in no time at all!"
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And all three of those would mean very, very quickly.
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