bat of an eye

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Whereupon Hargis’s friend, Ed Callahan, who was close, covered Tom Cockrell and in the bat of an eye Jim Cockrell, his brother, covered Callahan.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

And, if your husband should eventually die, you may, in another bat of an eye, change your esteem into love.

From The Double Widowing by Morlock, Frank J.

Slade's face did not change by so much as the bat of an eye and he failed to reply for a space—too long a space, she reflected—then turned to her.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)