in no time
Before you blink
In no time means very quickly or almost immediately: The paramedics arrived in no time.
The phrase suggests something happens so fast that no measurable time seems to pass.
Often used with reassurance: Don't worry, you'll be back on your feet in no time.
- at onceWithout any delay
- lickety-splitExtremely fast, immediately
- in a flashWithout any delay
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- right awayWithout pause or delay
before you know it · in two shakes · rapid · in a heartbeat · soon · posthaste · quick · momentary · swift · instant · in a trice · in a snap · fleeting · fast · pronto · shortly · sudden · any minute now
- Speed Expressionsin a flash, quick as a flash, lickety-split, lickety split, like lightning
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- soon synonymssoon, shortly, presently, imminently, any minute
- Right Awaynow, promptly, forthwith, straightaway, posthaste
- suddennesssudden, suddenly, abrupt, abruptly, instant
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
in no timeeventually
At a later time
slowly · in due course · over time · in the long run · at a snail's pace
in no timegradually
In slow stages
little by little · slowly but surely · incrementally · bit by bit · step by step
in no timenever
At no point
someday · when hell freezes over · down the road · in time · sooner or later