at one stroke

Definitions

1. 1

   With a single blow, effort, or act.

   • I should be ready to do the job without being paid for it, though I don't say it is not sweeter to get both gold and revenge at one stroke.
2. 2

   At once, immediately

   At once, immediately; in an instant.

   • [T]he whole object of the poem is to show what infinities of spiritual good and evil a current and sordid story may contain. When once this is realised, it explains at one stroke the innumerable facts about the work.
   • . . . with the wind of ruin in his hair, Soul sprang full-statured from the broken flesh, And at one stroke he lived the whole of life.
   • At one stroke his dashing raiment gave him high superiority over Johnnie Watson and other rivals who might loom.

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