"blink-and-you-miss-it" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-au-blink-and-you-miss-it.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} blink-and-you-miss-it (not comparable)

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The blink-and-you-miss-it town is located between two major highways.",
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          "ref": "2015, Susan Wittig Albert, Bittersweet, Penguin, page 40",
          "text": "Now, driving down the shadowy street, appreciating its early-morning peace and quiet, she reached down to the truck's cup holder and picked up the mug of hot coffee, Utopia was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it towns, on a road that didn't go much of anywhere.",
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        "(idiomatic) Barely visible because gone too quickly."
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