At one stroke

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  1. 1
    With a single blow, effort, or act.

    "I made up my mind that a man confined to his room by inflammation of the lungs, a fellow who had only two wishes left in the world, to see a particular woman, and then to die, could neatly accomplish those two wishes at one stroke by taking this journey in the rain."

  2. 2
    At once, immediately; in an instant. broadly, figuratively

    "[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."

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