how to say “at the click of a button”

 

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בִּלְחִיצַת כַּפְתּוֹר

 

 
Think of the phone you carry in your pocket or purse. With digitization, buttons have been transitioning from something we push to something we click. 
 
Thus the English expression at the push of a button has evolved into at the click of a button.
 

 

 
Hebrew retains the original expression, so that בִּלְחִיצַת כַּפְתּוֹר listen and repeat is the phrase today’s marketers use to tell you how easy it is to get something done or bought:
 
סַל קְנִיּוֹת מָלֵא, עַכְשָׁו בִּלְחִיצַת כַּפְתּוֹר!
A full shopping basket, now at the push of a button!
 
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The phrase, broken down:
 
כַּפְתּוֹר listen and repeat is the Ancient and Modern Hebrew word for button.
 
לְחִיצָה listen and repeat means pressing or pushing. It’s the noun form of the active-simple verb, לִלְחוֹץ listen and repeat.
 
בִּלְחִיצָה listen and repeat means with a push or at a push.
 
In בלחיצת כפתור, the ה (h) at the end of בלחיצה becomes a ת (t) in the combination phrase (סמיכות listen and repeat) meaning literally, at the push of a button.

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