in two shakes; in a blink; in a brace of shakes; in a flash; in a trice; at one stroke; at a stroke; for a small moment; he will be back in a moment; in a jiff; in the flicker of a second
In discussing the Takeda case decision and implications for informed consent in Japan, Professor Takao Yamada, a leading authority on civil law, wrote: “If the thinking of this decision is permitted to stand, blood transfusion refusal and the legal principle of informed consent will become a candle flickering in the wind.”
When youth departs, when health declines, when vigor wanes, when the light of hope flickers ever so dimly, they can be succored and sustained by the hand that helps and the heart that knows compassion.
Now the sunlight is replaced by the sinister, flickering glare of a billion meteors, roasting the ground below with their searing heat, as displaced material plunges back from space into the atmosphere.”
The flickering light of a television set, the moving shadows at the window, the lights that are switched on and off, the sound of cars coming and going, the footsteps in corridors, the keys unlocking and locking doors are all signs that the neighborhood is “alive.”
He said that this inability of some young people to sympathize with others is the reason they “can seemingly blow somebody away [shoot them dead] with not a flicker of remorse.”