בֵּין לַיְלָה, בֵּין לַיְלָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Overnight / in one night / all of a sudden

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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.)