in one fell swoop

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in one fell swoop = at one fell swoop:

all in one go

This expression comes from Macduff's appalled reaction to the murder of his wife and children in Shakespeare's Macbeth : 'Oh hell-kite!. ..All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?'

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