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idioma knee-jerk reaction/responseused about an opinion or idea that someone has given too quickly, without thinking carefully first:In a knee-jerk reaction to media coverage, The Children's Fund has condemned plans to punish young offenders more severely.When we are presented with an ethical or moral dilemma, there's a tendency to have a knee-jerk response. We're trying to teach officers to avoid that.NoteYou can use 'knee-jerk' with other nouns that show types of reactions:The union leaders' knee-jerk rejection of a 30 percent wage increase is not going to help their members.The one thing we do not need in this situation is narrow-minded, knee-jerk resistance to change.
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