0 If you say or do something in the heat of the moment, you say or do it without thinking because you are very angry or excited: --
I can only say that this action must have been taken in the heat of the moment.
We feel that often things are said in the heat of the moment which will perhaps be modified when the situation is calmer.
It is something that is generally done in the heat of the moment because someone has crossed you.
It seems to have been introduced in the heat of the moment, while attention is concentrated on one person.
It had been said in the heat of the moment at an excited meeting with about 4,000 people present.
I spoke in the heat of the moment.
They are helpful in the light of some of the comments made, perhaps in the heat of the moment, during the past few weeks.
I know that sometimes in the heat of the moment it is forgotten to pass on much-wanted information about relatives in places of danger.
