one fell swoop
One stroke; one action or event that achieves or accomplishes many results.
Changing the oil lubricates the engine and removes debris in one fell swoop.
swoop
/ˈswuːp/
verb 5noun 3
Collocations
4(verb.)
ADV
low
The police car swooped low across the parking lot to chase the suspect.
suddenly | down, in
PREP
on, over, towards
The police suddenly swooped down on the illegal gambling den during the raid.
Definitions
verb
1
To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
2
To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
3
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
And his Eagles, which can with the same ease as a kite swoops a chicken, snatch up a strong built Chamber of wood 12 foot square, & well crampt & fortified with Iron, with all its furniture, & a man besides, & carry it to the Clouds?
4
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
Thus the Phyſitian looks with another Eye on the Medicinal hearb, then the grazing Oxe, which ſwoops it in with the common graſs: […]
And now at last you come to swoop it all.
5
To pass with pomp; to sweep.
Proude Tamer swoopes along, with such a lustie traine / As fits so brave a flood two Countries that divides: […]
noun
1
An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
2
A sudden act of seizing.
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
3
A quick passage from one note to the next.
Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops.
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Idioms & Phrases
in one foul swoop
(Achieved or completed) with a single action; in a single stroke.
The acquiescence of the party as the result of hasty and immature deliberation, is indicative of a supreme contempt of comrades, and vitiates in one foul swoop the conditions that
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The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
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The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
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There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and h
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
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One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply
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The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages
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