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Related to on the spur of the moment: thick and fast, pillar to post

See: abet, activate, agitate, bait, catalyst, cause, exhort, harass, hasten, impel, impetus, incentive, motivate, precipitate, prevail upon, provocation, provoke, reason, spirit, stimulate, stimulus, urge

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Nan Bellayne," she invented on the spur of the moment.

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This was the best pretext I could think of, on the spur of the moment, to account for my visit.

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Indeed, sir,' said I, 'her affairs are so changed, that I wished to ask you whether it would be possible - at a sacrifice on our part of some portion of the premium, of course,' I put in this, on the spur of the moment, warned by the blank expression of his face - 'to cancel my articles?

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on the basis of a year
on the brink of
on the confines of
on the contrary
on the decline
on the docket
on the edge
on the edge of
on the face of the matter
on the first view
on the fringe of society
on the grounds
on the horizon
on the increase
on the journey
on the level
on the market
on the merits
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on the record
on the road
on the same footing
on the same level
on the same matter
on the spot
on the spur of the moment
on the stand
on the verge of
on the way
on the whole
on this account
once
Once a fraud
Once a mortgage always a mortgage
Once a recompense always a recompense
once more
oncoming
one
one after another
one after the other
one and all
one and the same
one at a time
one authorized to deliver a verdict
one by one
one called to the bar
one engaged in a manual enterprise
one engaged in buying and selling
one excluded from some privilege
one held in captivity
one held in confinement
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on the side
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on the side
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on the sly
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on the something side
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on the spot
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On the Spot (disambiguation)
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on the spur of the moment
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on the square
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on the square
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on the squiff
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on the stand
on the starboard tack
on the starboard tack
on the starboard tack
on the starboard tack
on the starboard tack
on the stick
on the stocks
on the street
on the street
on the streets
on the strength of
on the strength of
on the strength of
on the strength of
on the strength of
on the strength of
on the strength of (something)
on the strength of something
on the string
on the stroke
on the stroke
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