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before you could say Jack Robinson: synonyms: in a trice, jigtime, stound, in a brace of shakes ???

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a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on his neighbours, and be gone before his name could be announced.

^{Francis Grose. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.}

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a magician could call up a lot of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing before you could say Jack Robinson.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

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