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
Wigheard	-	Anglo-Saxon
Merab (1)	-	Biblical
Takhma Urupi	-	Persian Mythology
ČRt	-	Slovene
Anastazija	-	Croatian, Slovene
Nirmala	neer-MAH-lah (Indonesian)	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Nepali, Indonesian