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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
1925 Before you could say "Jack Robinson." (p. 201) Stowell, W. A. The Mystery
of Singing Walls. New York: Appleton, 1925. 1931 BRIDGES: they'd be over 'ere
before you could say Jack Robinson. (I, 1, p. 546) Coward, Noel. Cavalcade.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
ROBINSON Before you can (or could) say Jack Robinson Becoming old-
fashioned Very quickly: > 'I'll be downstairs before you can say Jack Robinson. ' >
'Before you could say Jack Robinson, he'd taken my wallet and dashed out of the
room ...
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Words that Teem with Meening [sic]: Copenhagen Views on ...
Thus, in "Using Idioms" (Prentice Hall), under the keyword SPEED we find before
you could say Jack Robinson/in the twinkling of an eye. 3) A grammatical system,
grouping idioms which are structurally related. In Seidl & McMordie's "English ...
Jørgen Erik Nielsen, 1992
Jack Robinson, Before one can say. 1778: Burney, Evelina, Lett, •Will returned he
; 'why, then, 'fore George, I'd do it as soon as say Jack Robinson.' 1812: Miss
Edgeworth, Absentee, ch ii, I'd get her off before you could say Jack Robinson.
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2006
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
in a flash/before you could say Jack Robinson/as quick as you like/ ... they/...
were/... off/they rushed off/... gesehen: (..., und) haste (hast du/hasse)
nichtgesehen, war er weg/ rannten sie davon/sausten alle fort/... kannst:(..., und)
haste was ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
... with a rattle and flourish drew up at Soames's door. □ / mentioned to the boys
that there was a bag of sweets on the table, and, before you could say Jack
Robinson, they were all eaten. before one's very eyes be in the dark □ Let 24.
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Now
You Know Big Book of Answers
Why do we say that something happened so quickly that it was over “before you
could say Jack Robinson”? Jack Robinson was a London social climber during
the early eighteenth century. He made it his business to appear at as many ...
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Hodgson's National Songster, etc
And he was ofl' before you could say Jack Robinson. Tol de rol, &e. 197 JACK-
ASSES OVER THE WATER. March! march ! Cripplegate, Horsely Down ; [to
slaughter. Why, my flints,do ye not forward March! tnarchl eyes right, don't tumble
down ...
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The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens): Routledge ...
The saying 'before you could say Jack Robinson', meaning 'very quickly', seems
to derive from a song called 'Jack Robinson', which told the story of a sailor jilted
by his love, and which ended with the line 'And he was off before you could say ...
"idioms before you can say Jack Robinson old-fashioned informal used to say
that something happens very quickly: Before you could say Jack Robinson, she'd
jumped into the car and driven away. . does what it says on the tin uk informal If ...
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Remembering Bevo Francis
Before you could say Jack Robinson, Oliver had been employed as basketball coach at Rio Grande. His first recruit was none other than the ... «The Highland County Press, 六月 15»
Residents in quiet Clacton lane left devastated after developers get …
“We all wrote letters to object but before you could say Jack Robinson we found out it had been approved. “The parish council objected to it. «Gazette, 二月 15»
Nine Surefire Ways to "Fix" Baseball
... broke out and the winner of the Midsummer Classic was being awarded home field for the World Series before you could say Jack Robinson. «Forbes, 二月 15»
Top 10 NRL rookies of the past 10 seasons
But his NRL career was fast too – done before you could say Jack Robinson. 8. Shaun Johnson The boy wonder dubbed 'the next Benji ... «The Roar, 二月 15»
Birders' Eye View: Welcoming winters birds
Before you could say Jack Robinson, the kestrel had nabbed an unlucky swallow and retreated back to the tree to breakfast on its prize. «Bluffton Today, 十一月 14»
Olusegun Oloruntoba, Retired Colonel : We will continue our quest …
But before we knew it, we were all taken to the kangaroo tribunal, court-martialled and before you could say Jack Robinson, about 14 of us, ... «Daily Sun, 六月 14»
The case for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel …
... was “fixed and settled” in Australia, and how “fortunes here were made, and lost, and made again, before you could say Jack Robinson". «The Conversation, 四月 14»
20 Most Controversial Showbiz Stars – Global Excellence
Before you could say Jack Robinson, Daniel dumped his wife and engaged secretly with Stella. Before Daniel engaged Stella, it was learnt that ... «Osun Defender, 八月 13»
Kissing and telling... tales of old Fleet Street: AN ALMOST ENGLISH …
They arrived late, got into bed and 'before you could say Jack Robinson, Kris was lying with his back to me, apparently asleep'. Did shyness or ... «Daily Mail, 九月 12»
Clare Balding was unimpressed by her brother's practical joke
But my sister, to whom he is married, proved a more attractive landlord and before you could say Jack Robinson he moved out from my place ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 一月 12»
