in a flash

"Similarly, coming out of that mindset isn't something that happens in a flash."

Lest we forget, there’s a murder, which opens the show in a flash forward; the series catches up with it by the end of Episode 3.

There was long-winded indulgence and lovely itty-bitty works, over in a flash but suggestive of a full and lovely life, like that of an insect.

Castellanos said Quintana’s account would post Instagram stories with “symbols or abbreviations which coincided with intersections allowing for all to respond in a flash mob fashion and overwhelm the location.”

Two and a half hours go by in a flash.