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On the spot   /ɑn ðə spɑt/   Listen
On the spot

adverb
1.
Without delay or immediately.  "Thought they were going to shoot us down on the spot"
2.
In a difficult situation.
3.
At the place in question; there.  "It had to be decided by the man on the spot"





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"On the spot" Quotes from Famous Books



... as good as the day was long, and who loved her husband desperately. One day she saw him a little annoyed, and said: "What makes you feel so?" "What should make me feel so! I have important business to attend to, and must go and see to it on the spot." "And are you annoyed about that? let us arrange matters thus: you will leave me provisions and close up all the doors and windows but one high up; make me a wicket, and then depart." "The advice pleases me," said her ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... lost his life each time. It was long before the first man reported that he had finished; they were all to open their dogs, and take out the entrails to prevent the meat being contaminated. The entrails were for the most part devoured warm on the spot by the victims' comrades, so voracious were they all. Suggen, one of Wisting's dogs, was especially eager for warm entrails; after enjoying this luxury, he could be seen staggering about in a quite misshapen condition. Many of the dogs would not touch them at ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
... rest of it," snapped Miss Price, cutting the tale short. "I'll dock you both half a day's pay: and the next time it happens you'll both be fired on the spot." ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson
... his hand, and he was bowing low, so too were Captain Puffin and the Padre, while Irene, Diva and Evie were making little ducking movements.... Miss Mapp was determined, when it came to her turn, to show them, as she happened to be on the spot, what a proper ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson
... on the spot, and it's your duty to join us. Anthony Thurston was always eccentric, and has left us a very troublesome charge. Her husband is not to get at the money, and this discrimination between man and wife is going to be confoundedly ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss


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