"We went overnight from being in the black to being in the red," he said.

But to modern history it's as if we went from primitive hunter-gatherers to farmers/empire builders almost overnight.

People think you get things going overnight.

A great athlete's skills do not go overnight.

As a result, Facit went out of business virtually overnight.

She went overnight from normal life to 50ft-billboard fame.

These sites went from multibillion-dollar enterprises to on the ropes overnight.

Most tend to go overnight, because cancer never sleeps.

I went overnight from the non-thinkers to the thinkers.

Imagine going overnight from a society where you never see a woman's face to being guarded by one with an M-16.