Money & finance
an impulse buy
an unplanned purchase
An impulse buy is something you buy suddenly without planning to buy it.
Hear it in real life
Why did you buy another coffee machine?
It was an impulse buy - the discount looked too good.
That bright scarf was an impulse buy, but I wear it all the time.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I did an impulse buy.
Say: I made an impulse buy.
Use "make" with the noun phrase, or say "It was an impulse buy."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be an impulse buy; make an impulse buy
Your turn: say it out loud
That bright scarf was an impulse buy, but I wear it all the time.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
an impulse buy
an unplanned purchase
“That bright scarf was an impulse buy, but I wear it all the time.”
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