off own bat

off your own bat

(British & Australian)

if you do something off your own bat, you do it without anyone else telling you or asking you to do it He chose to talk to the press off his own bat.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Iovianus	-	Ancient Roman
Banach	['ba:na:h]
ThÙY	-	Vietnamese
Gunvor	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Clara	KLAH-rah (Italian, German, Spanish), KLER-ə (English), KLAR-ə (English)	Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, English, Swedish, Danish, Late Roman
Margie	MAHR-jee	English