翻身, 臨邊 is still
heard. jit bang nia (sorry unable to get my chinese
characters working) is more often.
Another bin a bit vulgar no doubt.
su lang mn su thin su thin lanjiao bin.
翻身 huan-sin and 臨邊 liam-mi indeed
are the "older" types to express "a moment's time".
If I am not wrong, there is even a more traditional way of
saying "in a blink of time,
immediately, just a moment, shortly", just 1 word
only :
隨 sui = in a blink of time, immediately, just
a moment, shortly
Eg:
汝去先，我隨來。 Li Kh'i Seng, Wa Sui Lai.
(You shall go first, I will come shortly.)
As with 翻身 huan-sin and 臨邊 liam-mi , 隨 sui is
hardly heard nowadays.
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Now, as you mentioned, this expression is used more often:
「jit bang nia」 = in a blink of time, immediately, just a
moment, shortly
This expression has a sound change
very similar to it's sibling word which we had discussed before
here :
http://sgforums.com/forums/3545/topics/440050?page=35#post_10413604
Route
「jit bang
nia」or 「jit ban nia」is a merger of sound from 4 words
:
1. 蜀 (or commonly written as
「一」) = Tsit = "One"
2. 目
= Bak = "Eye"
3. (目聶)
= Nih = "Blink"
4. 仔
= A = "Diminuitive Ending"
蜀目(目聶)仔 = Tsit Bak Nih
A ► Tsit Bak Nia ► Tsit Ban
Nia ► Tsit Bang Nia
Please see this link here, as already expounded by someone
else:
http://www.ptt.cc/bbs/TW-language/M.1378095100.A.619.html
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『su lang mn su thin su thin lanjiao bin.』
from
輸儂毋輸陣，輸陣難照面。
becomes ►► 輸儂毋輸陣，輸陣膦爪面。
Refer to ：
http://zh.wikiquote.org/zh/%E9%96%A9%E5%8D%97%E8%AA%9E%E8%AB%BA%E8%AA%9E
輸郎毋輸陣，輸陣難照面
含義：輸人不能輸氣勢，連氣勢都輸了，就是完全輸了，面子就完全沒有了。後句因為讀音的緣故易被誤會為「藍鳥面」，故多使用「輸陣歹看面」替代。
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