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idiomin/at one fell swoopif you do a lot of things in one fell swoop, you do them at the same time, with one decision, action etc:Someone had pressed the wrong key and deleted all the files in one fell swoop.It is ludicrous to assume that all difficulties of access to college buildings can be removed, at one fell swoop, by the construction of a ramp. NoteThis idiom comes from a line in Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
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