quick as thought

adjective

Very quick.

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Meanings

adjectivequick as thought (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesimileVery quick.
adverbquick as thought (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesimileVery quickly.

    Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.

    1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
    1 more example

    “But it is too late! Already footsteps are echoing along the gallery which connects the two wings. What can she do? Quick as thought, she hurries back to the young girl’s room, and starts shaking her awake.”

    1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 169
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