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at one stroke
Idioms and Phrases
Also, at one blow ; at a stroke or blow ; in one stroke or blow . At the same time, with one forceful or quick action. For example, I managed to please both buyer and seller at one stroke . The first term is the older version, so used by Chaucer; at one blow was used by Shakespeare.Example Sentences
“It was backbreaking work because we bent over all day, and I was not very good at the beginning. Also I was afraid of the knife. We had to hold a bundle in one hand and use a long knife in the other to at one stroke make it all the same length. We started working at midnight or 1 a.m. with a miner’s lamp on our hats. So it was dark and kind of scary at first.”
Adolf Hitler, after first encountering his music, found himself “captivated at one stroke. … My youthful enthusiasm … knew no bounds.”
At one stroke of a governor's pen, America has suddenly rejoined the global clean energy and electrified transportation movement — only one day after China stepped into the limelight as its new leader.
Now, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has undercut all of them at one stroke.
At one stroke, she freed herself from both narrative and musical constraints, moving toward the hybrid idiom that would become her signature.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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