presto changeo
Magician announces transformation
Presto changeo is a mock-magical exclamation announcing a sudden transformation or surprising result, as if performed by a stage magician: Add the butter, stir for thirty seconds, and presto changeo—perfect sauce.
The phrase emphasizes how quickly or easily something changed.
It playfully exaggerates ordinary actions into feats of magic.
- magic trickPerformed feat seeming impossible
- wizardryPractice of casting spells
- magicSupernatural or illusory power
- vanishCease to be visible
- conjuringPerforming magical illusions
hocus-pocus · illusion · wand · abracadabra · enchantment · sleight · instantaneous · voila · poof · legerdemain · smoke and mirrors · metamorphosis · prestidigitation · transformation · sorcery · alakazam · disappearance · jiggery-pokery
presto changeostep by step
In ordered stages
bit by bit · little by little · slowly but surely · over time · evolutionary change
presto changeoblood sweat and tears
Maximum physical and emotional exertion
hard work · elbow grease · the hard way · the long way · by the book
presto, change, changes, changed, changing, changeable, unchangeable, changer, exchange