at one stroke meaning
[American slang]
adv. phr. Immediately; suddenly; with one quick or forceful action. The pirates captured the ship and captured a ton of gold at a blow. A thousand men lost their jobs at a stroke when the factory closed. All the prisoners escaped at one stroke.
Compare: AT ONCE, AT ONE TIME.
adv. phr. Immediately; suddenly; with one quick or forceful action. The pirates captured the ship and captured a ton of gold at a blow. A thousand men lost their jobs at a stroke when the factory closed. All the prisoners escaped at one stroke.
Compare: AT ONCE, AT ONE TIME.
Examples
More: Next- three invading battleships were sunk at one stroke ..
- let 's settle the matter at one stroke, not piecemeal.
- at one stroke he swept from linguistics all the apparatus of introspectionist psychology.
- the smoke choked the joking stroker at one stroke
- the smoke choked the joking stroker at one stroke
