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:

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