knee jerk
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"Everyone recognizes there is a growing antibiotic resistance crisis, and the knee jerk reaction is to develop new antibiotics," You added.
From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024
But a former cabinet minister - strongly opposed to withdrawal - described the idea as "knee jerk nonsense".
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2023
“I feel changing it because of criminal activity is a knee jerk rection and it’s not going to change anything,” she said last week.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022
“It wouldn’t surprise us if the knee jerk reaction was to sell and the end of the day we’d be higher.’
From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2022
Cross the knee to be stimulated over the other leg, and tap the tendon just below the knee cap, and the knee jerk appears.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
