immediately.

In one stroke, farmers will go from $100,000 in revenues to nothing.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the forms at a (single) stroke or in a stroke:

Rejecting the treaty would undo years of effort in a stroke.

• flunk out of school
• flush out
• flush out someone
• flush out something
• fly blind
• fly-by-night
• fly by the seat of pants
• fly by the seat of your pants
• flying high
• fly in the face of
• fly in the face of something
• fly in the ointment
• fly into a rage
• fly off the handle
• fly-on-the-wall
• fly on the wall
• fly the coop
• fly the flag
• fly the nest
• foam at the mouth
• foaming at the mouth
• fob off on
• fob off on someone
• fob something off on
• fob something off on someone