nimble vs quick as a flash

nimble

adj

  • Quickwitted and alert. 

  • Adept at taking or grasping 

  • Quick and light in movement or action. 

verb

  • To move nimbly. 

quick as a flash

adj

  • Extremely quick. 

adv

  • Extremely quickly. 

How often have the words nimble and quick as a flash occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )