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
ShilohSHIE-lo (English)Biblical
Nika (3)-Georgian
DraŽEn-Croatian, Serbian
Aoiah-o-eeJapanese
RĂZvan-Romanian
Ranj-Indian, Hindi (Anglicized)