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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? References in classic literature
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 More results

? References in classic literature

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

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