blink-and-you'll-miss-it

A form of blink-and-you-miss-it — Brief, fleeting, or subtle; so quick or small that it is easy to overlook if one is not paying close attention.

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Meanings

adjectiveblink-and-you'll-miss-it (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of blink-and-you-miss-it.

    Even the cast is heightened, so that the tiniest blink-and-you'll miss-it role is played by the likes of Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan and Henry Winkler.

    2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC
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APA

blink-and-you'll-miss-it. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blink-and-you'll-miss-it

MLA

“blink-and-you'll-miss-it.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blink-and-you'll-miss-it. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blink-and-you'll-miss-it,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blink-and-you'll-miss-it.

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