knee jerk , auch: knee-jerk reflex , auch: knee reflex

It seemed an incredibly knee jerk response to a well thought out opinion.

There is no thinking projects through - just knee jerk reactions.

Meaning we cut the knee jerks and start using our brains.

Is this just knee jerk reaction to the disaster in Japan?

Putting the knee jerk reactions of the Mail to one side.

"That would be a bit of a knee jerk reaction.

The thought hit her with a knee jerk reaction.

Just not the same knee jerk factor, I imagine.

He won't let some ancient hacksaw see if he's still got a knee jerk.

For the past five months, all we've heard from Labour is knee jerk opposition to our plans to tackle the deficit.

So vote knee jerk and vote values, in the end it will be much better for the environment.

There was no one to hear her, but this was knee jerk con behaviour.

A customer, he told himself, furious at the instant knee jerk of jealousy.

Honestly I think the team thing is more a knee jerk anti-apple reaction than anything else.

As for other knee jerk signings; We should have shopped early.

We don't want to have a knee jerk reaction."

Love the knee jerk reactions on this one.

This provision is a knee jerk reaction which is both bad and dangerous.

This is a knee jerk reaction from a government whose only idea is to make cuts, not grow an industry.

The call is not a knee jerk reaction to the snake, it's intelligent behaviour," she said.

I just don't think that the time is right for knee jerk reactions of sentimentality and heroism.

Briefly, skeptical thinking walks hand in hand with knee jerk reactions.

Knee jerks are certainly not the answer though they are the Tory speciality.

Public faith is fading quicker than ever and with irrational, knee jerk decisions like this it won't stop any time soon.