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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See jiffy.
Prepositional phrase[edit]
in a jiffy
- Very quickly; without delay.
- Call her if you have any problems and she'll get it fixed in a jiffy.
Translations[edit]
very quickly; without delay
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 馬上／马上 (zh) (mǎshàng)
- Czech: za chvilku, cobydup, v cuku letu (cs)
- Finnish: hetkessä, saman tien (fi)
- German: ruck, zuck (de), in null Komma nichts (de)
- Hungarian: egykettőre (hu), ripsz-ropsz (hu), egy pillanat alatt, egy szempillantás alatt, azonnal (hu), máris (hu), nyomban (hu), rögtön (hu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: om nokre få straksar, om to straksar
- Bokmål: om noen få strakser, om to strakser
- Polish: raz-dwa, raz-raz
- Portuguese: num piscar de olhos
- Russian: сию́ секу́нду (ru) (sijú sekúndu), сию́ мину́ту (ru) (sijú minútu)
- Spanish: en un santiamén, en un periquete, en un pispás (es)
- Swedish: på momangen (sv)
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