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Off the cuff.
If you do something off the cuff, you do it without any preparation.
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Libeskind spoke off the cuff for several minutes.
Having had so little time to prepare a speech, I spoke mostly off the cuff, for close to an hour".
Speaking off the cuff for 10 minutes in the middle of his set, he defended his most recent music video, "Monster," which includes cannibalism and women hanging by their necks.
Wingard has done fine work within the remit he was given, but it's ironic that The Blair Witch Project, filmed on the fly and off the cuff for $22,000£16,50000), is now a potentially huge franchise – product – to be pumped.
I somehow have a hard time believing that HTC's official stance on pockets is that they're bad news – instead, this sort of seems like something a support guy made up off the cuff for the sake of having something to blame.
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The little pencil drawing is Rivera's off-the-cuff sketch for the offending version.
A psycho-linguistic approach to his character ("Sifting Off-the-Cuff Remarks for Clues to the Inner Rudy," Feb. 12) may provide useful nuance, but what had changed was how we heard him.
His apparent off-the-cuff support for something like single-payer drew howls of protest from the right, though, and his current healthcare reform plan is basically in line with other GOP ideas.
Eventually you'll want to be able to do it off-the-cuff, but for now you need structure.
Released originally in her native Canada towards the end of 2011, Call Me Maybe – a song with more hooks than a Peter Pan-themed fishing convention – became a global phenomenon after fellow Canadian Justin Bieber made an apparently off-the-cuff viral video for the song featuring his then girlfriend Selena Gomez (current view count 70m).
It seems like a great solution for planning off-the-cuff events like meetings for coffee, dance marathons, and sexual flash mobs.
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