be having a moment
informal to be very popular or fashionable at a particular time:
Right now, oversized sweaters are having a moment.
UK informal to not be acting normally for a short time, for example because you are not thinking about what you are doing, or because you are feeling a strong emotion:
He was staring out of the window and he didn't answer me - I think he was just having a moment.
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- be where it's at idiom
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- it
- minute 1
- programme
- sharp
- smart
- state-of-the-art
- street cred
- swinger
- swinging
- switched on
- à la mode
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