flash card

flash card {n.}

A card with numbers or words on it that is used in teaching, a class.

The teacher used flash cards to drill the class in addition.

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[card] See: [CREDIT CARD], [FLASH CARD], [HOUSE OF CARDS], [IN THE CARDS] or [ON THE CARDS], [LAY ONE'S CARDS ON THE TABLE], [PLAY ONE'S CARDS RIGHT], [PUT ONE'S CARDS ON […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[in a flash] also [in a trice] {adv. phr.} Very suddenly. * /We were watching the bird eat the crumbs; then I sneezed, and he was gone in a flash./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[flash in the pan] {n. phr.}, {slang} A person or thing that starts out well but does not continue. * /The new quarterback was a flash in the pan./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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