before can say Jack Robinson

before you can say Jack Robinson

(old-fashioned)

if you say that something happens before you can say Jack Robinson, it happens very suddenly I offered her a chocolate but before you could say Jack Robinson she'd eaten half the box.

See also: before, can, jack, Robinson, say

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Phuntso	-	Bhutanese
JĀZeps	-	Latvian
Angelica	an-JEL-i-kə (English), ahn-JE-lee-kah (Italian)	English, Italian, Romanian, Literature
Dan (2)	DAN (English), DAHN (Romanian, Czech, Swedish)	English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Afra (1)	-	Late Roman
Atanasij	-	Macedonian