then and there

English

then and there (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Right at that moment in time; immediately.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
  When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 99:
  'Well, I soon saw to that, I told him to bolt it then and there[.]'

right at that moment in time

Irish: ar an ásc sin, ar an bhfáscadh sin, ar an iarracht sin, ar an spota, den fháscadh sin, lom láithreach

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