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Off the cuff.
If you do something off the cuff, you do it without any preparation.
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A few days later, he sent me an email containing an off-the-cuff text he had written about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn.
Embarrassment now comes with the swift tapping of thumbs on a BlackBerry or an off-the-cuff quip uploaded to YouTube.
Too often, campaigns engage in an off-the-cuff at-a-whim approach.
At the time a Rolling Stones' spokesman claimed Richards was joking: "It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true.
How children perceive a situation is altogether unpredictable, and may be based on something as seemingly insignificant as a passing glance or an off-the-cuff comment.
He said: "The whole was a off-the-cuff remark in the hallway, and the whole thing just exploded".
In a now notorious incident, the loutish comic Daniel Tosh directed an off-the-cuff rape joke at a woman challenging him at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.
"I know he thinks about decisions a hell of a lot and this wasn't just an off-the-cuff decision.
Campbell, a long-time champion of comprehensives, now dismisses the phrase as an "off-the-cuff accident", but it touched a nerve.
In this instance, McGuire's comments were an off-the-cuff response during a Q&A session.
In her nervousness, Meyer makes an off-the-cuff reference to a disgraced "Twitter monkey" previously on her staff as "hoisted by our own retard".
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