Overnight / in one night / all of a sudden

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Overnight / in one night / all of a sudden

Overnight / in one night / all of a sudden

Within a short time; from one day to the next (during the night).

(“And the Lord said: You had pity on the gourd, for which you did not labor and did not grow, which came into being overnight and perished overnight” — Jonah 4:10; and likewise: “Sprang up overnight like Aaron’s staff / upon a small shard of glass” — H. N. Bialik, Songs of Winter; and likewise: “The blossoming of the gourd which was overnight” — Leah Goldberg, On the Blossom; and likewise: “To understand that everything is one great gourd / that rose overnight and by morning passed away” — Natan Yonatan, The Act of Jonah; and likewise: “Memory is a kind of affliction, / that troubles you always — / yet slips from you in a moment, / if you are called to testify” — Hanania Rikhman, Proverbs and Aphorisms.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֵּין לַיְלָה, בֵּין לַיְלָה

Definition (Hebrew)

בְּתוֹךְ זְמַן קָצָר. מֵהַיּוֹם לְמָחָר (בִּזְמַן הַלַּיְלָה).

("וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אַתָּה חַסְתָּ עַל הַקִּיקָיוֹן אֲשֶׁר לֹא עָמַלְתָּ בּוֹ וְלֹא גִדַּלְתּוֹ, שֶׁבִּן לַיְלָה הָיָה וּבִן לַיְלָה אָבָד" — יוֹנָה ד׳ י׳, וְכֵן: "צָץ בֵּין לַיְלָה כְּמַטֵּה אַהֲרֹן / וְעַל זְכוּכִית חֲרָשָׂה קְטַנָּה" — ח.נ. בִּיאָלִיק / מִשִּׁירֵי הַחוֹרֶף, וְכֵן: "פְּרִיחַת הַקִּיקָיוֹן אֲשֶׁר הָיְתָה בֵּין לַיְלָה" — לֵאָה גּוֹלְדְּבֶּרְג / עַל הַפְּרִיחָה, וְכֵן: "לְהָבִין שֶׁהַכֹּל הוּא קִיקָיוֹן אֶחָד גָּדוֹל / שֶׁבֵּין לַיְלָה עָלָה וְעִם בֹּקֶר חָלַף" — נָתָן יוֹנָתָן / מַעֲשֵׂה יוֹנָה, וְכֵן: "זִכָּרוֹן הוּא סוּג שֶׁל פֶּגַע, / שֶׁמַּטְרִיד אוֹתְךָ תָּמִיד — / אַךְ נִשְׁמָט מִמְּךָ בֵּין רֶגַע, / אִם נִקְרֵאתָ לְהָעִיד" — חֲנַנְיָה רִיכְמָן / פִּתְגָּמִים וּמִכְתָּמִים, מִשְׁפָּט וּמִשְׁפָּח)

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