Meaning of on the spot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. At that very moment.
   idiomatic
2. Having to answer or decide without warning or preparation.
   idiomatic
3. In a particular place.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“He liked the house, so he made an offer⟳ on the spot.”

“There are in the Armies a great many Inſtances of Gun-ſhot Wounds of the Arm near the Scapula, which require⟳ Amputation at the Shoulder; but the Apprehenſion of loſing their Patients on the Spot by the Hæmorrhage, has deterred Surgeons from undertaking it.”

“All the sudden questions put⟳ him on the spot and he had to think⟳ quickly.”

“This report⟳ comes from our man on the spot in Gaza.”

“We exercised by jumping up and down on the spot.”

“I had accepted an engagement to go out with Mystofilms Ltd. in Fake of Dead Man's Bush—the dwarf-men picture, you know⟳, taken on the spot among the Australian bushmen.”

“[…] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train⟳ was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include⟳ the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.”

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