speak off the cuff Idiom, Proverb

speak off the cuff

Idiom(s): speak off the cuff

Theme: COMMUNICATION - VERBAL

to speak in public without preparation.
• I'm not too good at speaking off the cuff.
• I need to prepare a speech for Friday, although I speak off the cuff quite well.

speak off the cuff

To say article accidentally and spontaneously, after planning or preparation. (Hyphenated if acclimated as an adjective afore a noun.) I didn't accept time to adapt my thoughts, so I aloof batten off the cuff. You could acquaint she had been speaking off the cuff, because she couldn't appropriately acknowledgment the questions reporters asked her at the end of the conference.Learn more: cuff, off, speak

speak off-the-cuff

Fig. to allege after advancing a speech; to allege extemporaneously; to cede a announced assessment or estimate. (As if one's addendum had been accounting agilely on one's cuff.) she is able of authoritative faculty and actuality acceptable alike back she speaks off—the-cuff. I acquisition it actual difficult to allege off-the-cuff.Learn more: speak

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English Vocalbulary

nghĩa speak off