Arabic vocabulary
بَدِيهَةِspur of the moment
How to say “spur of the moment” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ عَلَى الْبَدِيهَةِ أَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ كَانَتْ بِنْتُهُ تَحْتَهُ،
He said on the spur of the moment: the best of people is the one whose daughter was under him.
الْبَدِيهَةِ — on the spur of the moment. A definite noun, 'the quick wit / spontaneity', in the after-preposition case under 'on', forming the idiom 'off the cuff'. The set phrase describes the reply as immediate and unprepared.
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