“stroke of”

The following 4 entries include the term stroke of.

a stroke of genius

noun phrase

: a brilliant and successful idea or decision

a stroke of work

noun phrase

: any work at all

at the stroke of

idiom

: exactly at

with a (single) stroke of a/the/his/her pen

idiom

: by a single act of moving a pen when it is being used to write or sign something used figuratively


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