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Princeton's WordNet

  1. on the spur of the moment, suddenlyadverb

    on impulse; without premeditation

    "he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment"; "he made up his mind suddenly"

Wiktionary

  1. on the spur of the momentadverb

    On very short notice; spontaneously.

Wikipedia

  1. On the Spur of the Moment

    On the Spur of the Moment is an album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1961.

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  1. on the spur of the moment

    "On the spur of the moment" is an idiom that refers to actions done impulsively, without prior planning or thought. It is often used to describe decisions made spontaneously based on current circumstances or emotions.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of on the spur of the moment in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of on the spur of the moment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of on the spur of the moment in a Sentence

  1. Griedge Mbock Bathy:

    On the spur of the moment youre happy and when the goals disallowed its frustrating, but you have to switch quickly, we had a lot of time left and we had a lot of opportunities to score.

  2. Jennifer Lopez:

    It was very, very minimally planned in advance and was largely spur of the moment. Violet stayed home because Jennifer Lopez’s extremely loyal to Jennifer Lopez mom.

  3. Christopher Velasquez:

    It did not happen on the spur of the moment.

  4. George Steinbrenner:

    It’s a very justified question to ever ask and to always ask, because he was one of the greatest at what he did, and all I can do is do my best, be my own person, make the decisions in the way that I've always made decisions, which is putting in as much thought into a decision as possible, taking the time if I have the time to do just that. There's no doubt I'm going to live a little bit less spur of the moment than he was in a lot of ways.

  5. Brendan Hunt:

    I had made that video one night when I had been having a bunch of beers, smoking a little weed, taken a few bong rips, and I kind of did this spur of the moment video, just spewing out some rhetoric, and I didn't think anything was wrong at the time, i thought it was sort of amusing in a way. And Inauguration Day later I checked back into Inauguration Day with a bit of a sober mind and saw that Inauguration Day wasn't really sparking the dialogue that I had hoped to get going.


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  • [[sehr]] [[kurzfristig]]German

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