Idiom
spur of the moment
Meaning
Impulse; short notice; a lack of planning.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We decided to leave on the spur of the moment.”
“She bought the dress on the spur of the moment and later wondered if she should have waited.”
“On the spur of the moment, he abandoned his carefully planned itinerary and boarded a train to the coast, chasing a memory he could not name.”
Examples
simple
“We decided to leave on the spur of the moment.”
contextual
“She bought the dress on the spur of the moment and later wondered if she should have waited.”
complex
“On the spur of the moment, he abandoned his carefully planned itinerary and boarded a train to the coast, chasing a memory he could not name.”
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