at one stroke

Meaning

(literally) With a single blow, effort, or act.

(figuratively, by extension) At once, immediately; in an instant.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

suddenly all of a sudden one shot all at once of a sudden in one fell swoop

Antonyms

continuously successively piecemeal cautiously consecutively stepwise
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Examples

Here am I at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice. Marquis de Sade

An oak is not felled at one stroke. Spanish Proverb

A tree is not felled at one stroke. Hungarian Proverb

Words in the phrase

at one stroke

Close letter words and terms

at one point at one sitting at one stretch at one time at one time or another at one with