at the drop of a hat

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Famously, they'll take requests from the audience, often playing other artists' songs at the drop of a hat.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

To summon such challenging and intricate music at the drop of a hat is another of the band’s magic tricks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

“They are using it at the drop of a hat because it makes day to day operations easier,” said Tammie Gregg, deputy director for the A.C.L.U.’s National Prison Project.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2023

They failed to coordinate search and rescue within their own state organizations and with foreign rescue teams that were flying in at the drop of a hat.

From Slate • May 16, 2023

He could quote Browning or Tennyson or Shakespeare at the drop of a hat, and the quote was always apt and telling, never pretentious or affected.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown