The phrase "a quick blow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a sudden or brief impact, whether physical or metaphorical.
Example: "The boxer delivered a quick blow to his opponent, catching him off guard."
Alternatives: "a swift hit" or "a sudden strike".
The earliest senses were "a quick blow, accompanied by a popping sound" and "a twitch".
Most campaign ads are jabs in a boxing match that either land a quick blow or are fended off by a wily opponent.
Moreover, Greeley believed that secession had been the work of a small minority of fire-eating fanatics; a quick blow and a little taste of the full force of the Union Army would embolden the silent majority of Southern Unionists he believed had yet to be roused.
NEW ORLEANS — Seven years to the day that Hurricane Katrina and levee failures unleashed a deluge of devastation on the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac brought its own distinctive mode of destruction on Wednesday, drenching the coast not with a quick blow but with an unremitting smothering.
After it's done printing, one of the engineers scraped away the gel-like material and put it through an acid wash and then a quick blow dry to remove any remaining particles.
Fortunately, my addiction to fishing and meaningless killing (no one in my family really likes fish anyway) ended when a local fisherman named Bob demonstrated to me just exactly what happened to a fish once I had caught the little guy: a quick blow to the head with a wrench.
The hair stylist Didier Malige (who sheepishly admitted that he had never watched the movie) used Aveda Brilliant Retexturing Gel on center-parted, wet hair before twisting each side, giving them a quick blow-dry, and then pinning them up into two buns to let them set.
In most social situations, a general fake laugh or "Really?" will do the trick for a quick blow-by: this shows that you have a genuine interest in the conversation – and that removing yourself from it at this time would be unacceptable.
My scare-spot for the next night was in a wall, isolated from the other zombies, so I had an easy time taking a quick puff and blowing it away into some unknown 200-year-old crevice of the prison.
Blow a quick puff of air into the hole to blow up the paper like a balloon.
We need one quick blow from a guillotine, not numerous hacks from a blunt axe.
