(n.) A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I'm afraid Mr Pierrepoint is rather busy today, but he's got just one hanging before you, so we'll have you out of here in a jiffy.
(2) In the novel, Bilbo basically sleeps through the main bulk of the battle, and it's all over in a jiffy.
(3) But some harried office junior decided to post back the fragile glass plate in said Jiffy, with the inevitable consequences.
(4) They wish women could be "freeze-dried and quick and done in a jiffy".
(5) Stage shows feature monsters made out of Jiffy bags; in the new series, Fielding briefly sports a Polo as a monocle.
(6) It was alleged that he plotted with the couple and four other defendants to hinder the police investigation into hacking after Charlie Brooks was caught hiding a computer and other material including a Jiffy bag of porn DVDs behind a bin in the underground car park at the Chelsea home he shared with Rebekah Brooks.
Trice
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
(v. t.) To haul and tie up by means of a rope.
(n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metformin 0.5 g trice daily or placebo were given for 4 weeks.
(2) This dorsal approach, easy to perform, ensures in a trice the "resting position" of the thumb and the articular congruity.
(3) meter disposable dialyzers and a dialysis strategy of 3 hours every other day or 4 hours trice weekly have been presented.
(4) In Groups B, C, D, G, H and I, the wound was painted trice weekly with a 0.5% solution of Trp-P-2 in DMSO for 8 weeks.
(5) This is the kind of creative accounting that could end the deficit in a trice.)
(6) Soaring inflation could and would destroy that link in a trice.
(7) In Groups A and F, the wound was painted trice weekly with DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) for 8 weeks.
(8) He was treated with bicarbonated hemodialysis trice weekly.
(9) I lope into Café Rui and in a trice they've laid me a place and grilled me some fat small sardines, and found a handful of small squid, which they fry in good oil with cloves of golden garlic.
(10) Bank regulation has been kicked into 2019 – political neverland: in a trice the entire NHS is put up for tender to "any qualified provider" , but banks get seven years to "prepare" while they lobby against already weak reforms.
(11) Don't look for consistency, either: MacMillan could veer between genius, excess and claptrap in a trice – and deciding which is which still divides opinion to this day.
(12) To determine the effect of a recombinant alpha interferon 2b (Intron-A) and possible benefit of prednisolone pretreatment in chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis, 75 Chinese patients with clinico-histologically proven chronic hepatitis were randomly allocated to one of the following regimens: (A) 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 6 months; (B) dose titration according to ALT-AST values; (C) prednisolone withdrawal followed by regimen A; (D) control group: no treatment for 6 months but followed by alternating treatment with 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 2 weeks followed by 2 weeks no treatment for 6 months.
(13) And Jill Abramson , executive editor of the New York Times , was out in a trice, too – sacked, brushed away, her name erased from the paper's masthead with a ruthlessness Kim Jong-Il might have envied.