Meaning of IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English if we say that something happens
in the blink of an eye it means that it happens
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very, very quickly.
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To review this is a blink and this is a wink.
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I'm not very good at winking but we definitely
do say that things happen in the blink of
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an eye.
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So sometimes we use this to describe, like,
a car accident.
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So I was driving along, things were going
nicely, I looked down at the radio of my car,
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and then in the blink of an eye, someone pulled
out in front of me.
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So when you say in the blink of an eye it
means very, very quickly.
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And just to review, this is a blink when I
use two eyes.
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And here's a wink for you.
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I gotta work on that don't I?
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