bat of an eye

In “Opal Loop,” Brown said: “There is a total immersion at the bat of an eye, from one physical state to another. It is tumultuous to perform, but if I guide the momentum just right there is an ease.”

You must have a valid passport, because I love to fly off to exotic locations at the bat of an eye.

Trying the task myself, I was unable to keep track of more than five numbers after staring at the screen for many seconds, while Ayumu did the same after having seen the numbers for just one-fifth of a second—literally the bat of an eye.

The conventional wisdom has been that, without the edits of traditional filmmaking, you can't go from one place to another in the bat of an eye.

And yet in the bat of an eye, the film had imploded spectacularly.