Daily life
on a whim
spontaneously
If you do something on a whim, you decide to do it suddenly without much planning.
Hear it in real life
Why did you start learning pottery?
I signed up on a whim, and now I love it.
We booked a weekend in Da Nang on a whim.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I adopted a cat in a whim.
Say: I adopted a cat on a whim.
Use the preposition "on," not "in," in this phrase.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
do something on a whim; decide on a whim to do something
Your turn: say it out loud
We booked a weekend in Da Nang on a whim.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
on a whim
spontaneously
“We booked a weekend in Da Nang on a whim.”
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