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On-the-spot   Listen
adjective
on-the-spot, on-the-scene  adj.  Being or occurring at the place or time in question; as, an on-the-scene newscast.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"On-the-spot" Quotes from Famous Books



... you've got to dive at least twelve feet and bring up from the bottom a dead weight of not less than ten pounds and swim ten feet carrying that weight. I tell you, Father, that's quite a stunt! And then, besides all the swimming stuff, you've got to show that you're Johnny-on-the-spot in throwing a life-buoy, to say nothing of a barrel of tests in first aid, and in splicing and knot-tying of nearly every sort and shape. You don't get any chance to rest, either. All that swimming business has to be done on ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... "For instance, how that dog happens to be here and trying to protect a total stranger. For, Bobby only got to Miami, from New Jersey, by this morning's train. He can't possibly know this man. That's one thing. Another is, how this—Brice, did you say his name is?—happened to be Johnny-on-the-spot when the other chap tried to knife me. And how you happen to know him by name. He's dressed more like a day-laborer than like any one you'd be likely to meet .... But all that can wait. The thing now is to find how badly ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune



Words linked to "On-the-spot" :   on-site, on-the-scene



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