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Off the cuff.
If you do something off the cuff, you do it without any preparation.
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It was just an off-the-cuff idea that I thought would be funny.
By the end of the show, there's a rap summation of Sadat's thoughts on the bottle of choice, paired with any off-the-cuff idea that's trickling through his mind while the camera's running.
Kotlyar says the features are mostly off-the-cuff ideas from Gmail engineers that take just a few hours to develop.
These closely-held secret policy ideas are unveiled the night of the speech, and then other politicians gave off-the-cuff reactions to the ideas immediately afterwards.
Composers often doubled as virtuosos, throwing out ideas in off-the-cuff improvisations.
It is also best to not remind your teenager as a "one-off" thing but to discuss the topic regularly, including making off-the-cuff comments and asking for their ideas and questions about alcohol at any time.
When you're a speaker at a "celebration of women in computing", it's probably not a good idea to make off-the-cuff remarks about how women should trust "the system" to give them the pay they deserve.
Brian Wilson: Well, my wife, my manager and I were throwing ideas around one day, and it was just one of those off-the-cuff remarks that made sense.
At the beginning of Corea's "Children's Song #6," the ideas were batted around quickly, and what began by resembling an off-the-cuff exchange grew in intensity as two virtuosos challenged each other.
The idea is that the audience is eager to hear him reminisce in a chatty, off-the-cuff fashion about the backstage antics of Bette Midler, Cher and the like, and that's a bit of an assumption.
That happens in off-the-cuff remarks.
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