Instinct – A second-rate emotion?

lose no time in doing something

do something immediately
Murdock lost no time in taking out a patent for his invention.

Yeti lost no time adopting fourteen piglets, even though their own mothers were still around.

to move through a place by carefully going around thing that are blocking your way
She came towards me, threading her way through the crowd.

When the sun shines, the danger comes from agile hawks threading their way through the trees on the look out for a nasty meal.

to say that someone or something is similar to other person or thing (= compare)
Critics have likened the new theater to a supermarket.

You could even liken the keeping of dogs and other pets to interspecies adoption.

used to give your final opinion after considering all the possibilities
At the end of the day, it’s his decision.

At the end of the day, it feels just the same.