flash-freeze

Definitions

Examples

• The quandary of whether to freeze eggs or not could become irrelevant overnight.

• The idea that January 1st initiates a period of new beginning is not a flash of Hallmark brilliance.

• But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.

• Afterward, you can actually see her young career flash before her eyes as she makes a kind of puffed up blowfish face.

• In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.

• The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

• A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.

• "A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.

• If those jaspers flash any part of the roll in the Territory before snowfall, I'll get them.

• He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.