- a very short time
- He was asleep in a twinkling.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTwinkling is used before these nouns:- eye
- light
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See twinkling in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin the twinkling of an eye
- very quickly synonym instant (1)
- Suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, her whole life had been turned upside down.
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