blink-and-you-miss-it

blink-and-you-miss-it

Of such a brief duration or small size as to be easily missed. Used as a modifier before a noun. I was excited to be in the movie, but it was really just a blink-and-you-miss-it part.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • keen as mustard
  • round robin
  • a round robin
  • side by side
  • eleventh hour
  • the eleventh hour
  • heads I win, tails you lose
  • black market
  • the black market
  • kid-vid
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INTRIGUING TWIST Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon wisecracks alongside Beckinsale as her blink-and-you-miss-it lesbian best friend.
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