as quick as a flash
quick as a wink
quick as lightning
as fast as lightning

"I thought all explosions had to be as quick as a flash," said Walter.

Then, as quick as a flash, came an expression of overpowering fear.

As quick as a flash, Buchanan brought the tire iron back and threw it.

Then, in a move almost too quick to see, someone rolled into the room as quick as a flash.

All she had to do was reach out and touch one, and as quick as a flash it would spring to life!

And, as quick as a flash, he sent one after another smashing down into the posy-beds below.

On the same board or the screen or stage now images as quick as a flash followed each other, about 10,000 in half an hour.

He was as quick as a flash.

As quick as a flash Barney slipped inside, drew the door to, and slid down the greasy chain.

It gave Bill Butts the chance he wanted and as quick as a flash he dove into the crowd and out of sight.

Jeeves was a kindly man, and not only a kindly man but a man who could open a bottle of champagne as quick as a flash.

And when Donella refused to, ah, set up the date, Cain replied as quick as a flash: "Then you and I can have dinner."

I fairly shouted, for I had never heard it sound better; and then I was back at him as quick as a flash--"Right, your Excellency!

As quick as a flash there leaped to his mind nine Martian sounds, but as quickly faded as he answered that this was a secret he must not divulge.

It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels.

As quick as a flash of forked lightning, Ms. Burrell can switch Estelle from an undulating figure of sensuality and unfulfilled desire into a brittle, harsh caricature of humanity.

For this month's design, as with all projects where the solution hasn't come as quick as a flash of inspiration, I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months.

As I did so, as quick as a flash there shot out a long tentacle from this mass of floating blubber, and it fell as light and sinuous as a whip-lash across the front of my machine.

As quick as a flash, Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl's head and shoulders, yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides.