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before you can say knife
vs
in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
before you can say knife
phrase
Very quickly; quicker than one expects.
in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
How often have the words
before you can say knife
and
in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)