"flash and flicker" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used as a descriptive phrase to describe certain actions or movements that are quick and sudden. Example: The fireflies danced in the garden, their lights flashing and flickering in the darkness.
When they suddenly take center stage, illuminated by the flash and flicker of Molotov cocktails, we feign surprise.
Then he leaps like a superhero, beaming as the red lights on his new sneakers flash and flicker, while the American couple he is with dissolve in laughter.
The hill upon which this backyard is perched frames the suburbs below and city beyond, as lights flash and flicker and flurry.
We observed substantial rescue of photopic flash and flicker responses in treated animals, while scotopic traces remained unchanged.
Photopic recordings were performed following 10 min light adaptation intervals on a background light intensity of 20 cd/m, which was also used as the background light for the duration of photopic flash and flicker recordings.
But while the screen flashes and flickers, little else is happening.
At the beginning of David Lynch's flashing and flickering new video for the Nine Inch Nails song "Come Back Haunted," a notice warns viewers that the piece could "potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy".
This strange, discomfiting novel captures, in flashes and flickers, the infinite, inconsequential mystery of the endangered human soul that's always on its way toward winking out in the dark.
The Ferrari's 562-horsepower V8 engine crescendos in a feral bellow, as the red wedge flashes and flickers past the fence.
There were performed according to the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) standards such as the absence of rod response, morphologically similar waveforms of scotopic and photopic responses to the standard stimulus flashes (3.0 ERG) and flicker reduction [ 4, 5].
In Indo-European languages, a relatively large class of sound symbolic elements are phonesthemes, sound sequences, or clusters that occur across a number of words that have similar semantic properties (e.g., glimmer, glisten, glow refer to steady light and flicker, flash, flare refer to moving light; Bergen, 2004; Parault & Parkinson, 2008).
