Jack Robinson Idiom, Proverb
quicker than you can say Jack Robinson
before you can say Jack Robinson
Idiom(s): before you can say Jack RobinsonTheme: SOON
almost immediately. (Often found in children's stories.)
• And before you could say Jack Robinson, the bird flew away.
• I'll catch a plane and be there before you can say Jack Robinson.
before one can say Jack Robinson|Jack|Jack Robinso
adv. cl., informal Very quickly; suddenly.
An overused phrase. Before I could say Jack Robinson, the boy was gone. Compare: IN A FLASH, RIGHT AWAY.
Jack Robinson
Jack Robinsonsee before you can say Jack Robinson.
before (one) can say Jack Robinson
Very bound or suddenly. (The accurate character of Jack Robinson is unknown.) I'm not far from your house, so I'll be there afore you can say Jack Robinson. Before I could say Jack Robinson, Tom had leapt to his anxiety and rushed out of the room.Learn more: before, can, jack, Robinson, saybefore you can say Jack Robinson
and quicker than you can say Jack RobinsonFig. about immediately. (Often begin in children's stories.) And afore you could say Jack Robinson, the bird flew away. I'll bolt a even and be there quicker than you can say Jack Robinson.Learn more: before, can, jack, Robinson, saybefore you can say Jack Robinson
Also, quicker than you can say Jack Robinson. About immediately, actual soon, as in I'll accomplishment this book afore you can say Jack Robinson. This announcement originated in the 1700s, but the character of Jack Robinson has been lost. Grose's Classical Dictionary (1785) said he was a man who paid such abrupt visits to acquaintances that there was hardly time to advertise his accession afore he had departed, but it gives no added documentation. A newer adaptation is before you apperceive it, acceptation so anon that you don't accept time to become acquainted of it (as in He'll be gone afore you apperceive it). Learn more: before, can, jack, Robinson, saybefore you can say Jack Robinson
actual bound or suddenly. informal This announcement was in use in the backward 18th century, but neither an aboriginal 19th-century accepted song about Jack Robinson nor some mid 19th-century attempts to analyze the eponymous Jack Robinson afford any ablaze on its origins.Learn more: before, can, jack, Robinson, saybefore you can say Jack ˈRobinson
(old-fashioned) actual bound or suddenly: I’ll do that for you. I’ll accept it accomplished afore you can say Jack Robinson.Learn more: before, can, jack, Robinson, saybefore you can say Jack Robinson
At once, instantly. No one seems to be able to trace this appellation absolutely or to ascertain the character of Jack Robinson. Its ancient accurate use was in 1778 in Fanny Burney’s Evelina (“I’d do it as anon as say Jack Robinson”). It appears in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. According to Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary (1785), the aboriginal Jack Robinson was a admirer who alleged on his neighbors so arbitrarily that there was hardly time to advertise him afore he was gone. Learn more: before, can, jack, Robinson, say
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