Meaning & use
a blonde moment
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Meaning
phrasecountableinformalhumorous
A short moment of forgetfulness or silly behavior, usually said lightly about yourself or a friend.
Grammar: Countable and used with 'a': 'I had a blonde moment' — you cannot say 'I had blonde moment'.
Patterns
- have a blonde moment
- a blonde moment about something
- I'm having a blonde moment
I spent ten minutes looking for my glasses while they were on my head — total blonde moment.
Sorry, I called you by the wrong name; I'm having a blonde moment.
He had a blonde moment and tried to open his front door with his bank card.
Word forms
| plural | blonde moments |
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Common combinations
- have a blonde moment
- I had a blonde moment and forgot her birthday.
- a total blonde moment
- Locking my keys in the car was a total blonde moment.
- I'm having a blonde moment
- I'm having a blonde moment — what's your name again?
- a bit of a blonde moment
- It was a bit of a blonde moment, but no harm done.
Synonyms and how they differ
- a senior moment
- Used humorously about forgetfulness in older people; it targets age instead of hair color, so it is not interchangeable.
- a brain fart
- Very informal and more vulgar-adjacent in some settings; it means the same slip but is ruder.
- a slip
- A neutral, general word for a small mistake, with none of the joking tone.
Word family
- blonde adjective
- Having light yellow hair; the word the phrase is built on.
Commonly confused: a blonde moment or a blond moment?
a blonde moment vs a blond moment
'Blond' without the -e is the spelling often used for a man, but the fixed phrase is almost always written 'a blonde moment'.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase naturally?
Choose one answer.
A blonde moment is a small silly slip, like mixing up salt and sugar. Studying hard, finishing early and paying bills are successes, not moments of forgetfulness.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “a blonde moment”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.