in the heat of the moment

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if you say or do something in the heat of the moment, you say or do it without thinking because you are angry or excited Frank doesn't hate you. He just said that in the heat of the moment.

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a little trifle here, thrown off in the heat of the moment, which I should say was exactly the thing you wanted to set this place on fire with. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context That he had thought he would have lots of time to put it in afterwards--when required--and, that, in the heat of the moment, he had forgotten all about it. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context Newman accompanied this very unusual outbreak with a violent blow upon the table, as if, in the heat of the moment, he had mistaken it for the chest or ribs of Mr Wackford Squeers. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context			in the dead of the night in the doghouse in the doldrums in the drink in the driver's seat in the dumps in the end in the event of in the eyes of in the eyes of the law in the face of in the family in the family way in the fast lane in the final analysis in the first place in the first place and in the first instance in the flesh in the fullness of time in the grand scheme of things in the grip of in the groove in the gutter in the hands of in the heat of in the heat of the moment in the hole in the hopper in the hot seat in the house in the interest of in the interest of saving time in the interim in the know in the lap of luxury in the laundry in the light of in the line of duty in the line of fire in the long run in the long term in the loop in the main in the mainstream in the making in the market in the market for in the meantime in the meanwhile in the middle of in the middle of nowhere			in the fulness of time in the Future In the Garden Ministries In the Garden Software in the general time frame in the good graces of in the good graces of in the good graces of In the Grand Manner in the grand scheme of things In the Gravest Extreme in the great scheme of things in the grip of in the groove in the groove in the groove in the groove in the groove In the Groove (disambiguation) In the gross In the Growing Places in the gutter in the habit in the habit of in the hands of In the Hands of Civil Authority in the hands of receivers In the Hands of the Fishers in the heat of in the heat of in the heat of the moment in the hole in the hole in the hole in the hole in the hole in the hole in the hopper In the Hot Seat In the House in the immediate vicinity of in the interest in the interest in the interest in the interest in the interest in the interest of in the interest of in the interest of one party in the interest of saving time In the Interest of Time in the interests in the interests in the interests in the interests in the interests in the interim in the interim in the intervening time in the jaws of death In the King's Name

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