at the drop of a hat

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Without anyhesitation;instantly.Synonyms:at a moment's notice,at once,in a heartbeatWe're expected to just do itat the drop of a hat.If you need help, just call on Mike. He can comeat the drop of a hat.1957,Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, inOn the Road, Viking Press,→OCLC, part 1:A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each otherat the drop of a hat.2014, Becky Rutledge,Miss Becky's Charm School‎[1], Citadel Press,→ISBN:Let's face it. We are swollen up like an overfed slug, our breath stinks, the tiniest irritant is magnified ten thousand times, and we cryat the drop of a hat.

Examples:

EN: Fight at the drop of a hat, and yet, underneath it all, as tenderhearted as a baby lamb.
ES: Peleaba ante la menor provocación... pero en el fondo, era tierno como un corderito.
EN: You, who used to rear at the drop of a hat.
ES: Tú, que te emocionabas con cualquier cosa.
EN: He'll marry anybody to anybody at the drop of a hat.
ES: Casaría a cualquiera con cualquiera a las primeras de cambio.
EN: I don't want to wait either. But after all, a Stanley just can't get married, - like other people, at the drop of a hat.
ES: Cariño, yo tampoco quiero esperar, pero después de todo un Stanley no puede... casarse con otras personas, así, de repente...
EN: Wherever I am, I sing at the drop of a hat.
ES: Dondequiera que esté, siempre canto.
EN: Girls fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.
ES: Las chicas se enamoran de ti como si nada.
EN: Wayne Phillips can invent an emergency operation at the drop of a hat if he knows he's gonna be the guest of honor at a dinner party.
ES: Wayne Phillips inventaría una operación urgente... si sabe que va a ser un invitado de honor.
EN: That can't be decided at the drop of a hat!
ES: ¡Eso no se puede decidir en un abrir y cerrar de ojos!
EN: They're everywhere, ready to fall in love at the drop of a hat.
ES: Están por todas partes, listos para enamorarse.
EN: I'd have a kid at the drop of a hat, only my husband's in America.
ES: Tendría un hijo en un santiamén, pero mi marido se fue a América.
EN: They'll cut you open at the drop of a hat!
ES: ¡Le operan a uno por menos de nada!
EN: I fall in love at the drop of a hat.
ES: Me enamoro con mucha facilidad.
EN: Well, son, you can't change your whole way of life at the drop of a hat.
ES: Bueno, hijo, pues si estabas acostumbrado no es posible que cambies tan pronto.
EN: He'd fight at the drop of a hat. Took on four of our best one night and the next meeting we made him vice-president.
ES: Madreó a cuatro y lo hicimos vicepresidente.
EN: It's my considered opinion that you use witchcraft at the drop of a hat.
ES: En mi modesta opinión usas la brujería indiscriminadamente.

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