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off-the-cuff

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off-the-cuff

Fig. spontaneous; without preparation or rehearsal. Her remarks were off-the-cuff, but very sensible. I'm not very good at making speeches off-the-cuff.

off-the-cuff

an off-the-cuff remark is one that is not planned (always before noun) He made several off-the-cuff remarks which he later denied.