in the short term we could see a knee-jerk reaction higher.

It's a knee-jerk reaction to a surprise.

My immediate, knee-jerk reaction was that we can live with this, ... On the other hand, this is bigger than we've seen before.

This was not a knee-jerk reaction. It was not based on one game. It was a feeling in the program itself.

The bin Laden tape has caused a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the market.

Let's not blindly presume in a knee-jerk reaction that small is always better and that designer boutique is better. In a rush to appear that the mayor is pushing ahead with reform, the kids are being left in the dust, and we're not sure if any of these experiments are working.