What is a lightning visit?

Question

In our dictionary, under ''lightning'' Lightning visit -> visita (f) relámpago . What the? What could that be?

Wow the thread title looks so cool, do you see it as it appears in my browser? - jeezzle, Feb 6, 2011

That's becasue you put quotes in the first line of the reply. It would not have linked except for the right angle quote that you also used. - 0074b507, Feb 6, 2011

I'm gonna make all my thread this way from now on. - jeezzle, Feb 6, 2011

Sorry, not cool. Confusing to people not familiar with the glitch (which is most everyone). I fixed it. For some reason standard double quotes should not be used in the first line of the post. - webdunce, Feb 6, 2011

The solution is to use to apostrophes for the quote marks in the first lines of the post (or avoid quotes at all in the first lines). - webdunce, Feb 6, 2011

double apostrophes, that is (so they look like real quotes) - webdunce, Feb 6, 2011

Answer 1

Well, I know what it means in Spanish, is the expression not know in English?

Visita relámpago: a visit that is very sudden and very short.

Like suddenly you have somebody standing on your doorstep and he says, hey, I am staying for a couple of days jeje

Wow. Never heard of it. - jeezzle, Feb 6, 2011

'I paid him a lightning visit', "I took a lightning break"; I've used these and would have said they were not uncommon English expressions. - Jespa, Feb 6, 2011

sounds like speed dating. - 0074b507, Feb 6, 2011