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off the cuff

off the cuff prepositional phrase: in an off-the-cuff manner.

Prepositional phrase

  1. In an off-the-cuff manner.
    • Nor was there anything off the cuff about their insistence that Manuel Pellegrini was happy to make the name of his replacement public knowledge, echoing his sentiment that they were “not doing anything behind me” from a press conference earlier in the same day.2016 February 2, Lee Roden, “Premier League: From Pellegrini to Pep - Why the Engineer made City the ideal destination for Guardiola”, in Yahoo Sport
    • McCartney is a showman, not a script-reader. His banter Friday night was fresh, off the cuff.2026 March 29, Matt Mitchell, “In LA, Paul McCartney is king”, in AV Club

off the cuff meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

off the cuff in Urdu

بلاتیاری

off the cuff in Malayalam

extempore, impromptu, ad lib
താനേവരുന്ന, സഹജം, അന്തഃപ്രചോദിതം, സ്വാഭാവികമായ, തയ്യാറെടുപ്പില്ലാതെയുള്ള, മുൻകൂട്ടി എഴുതിത്തയ്യാറാക്കാത്ത
without preparation, without rehearsal, impromptu
മുന്നൊരുക്കം കൂടാതെയുള്ള, തയ്യാറെടുപ്പില്ലാതെ, മുൻകൂട്ടി തയ്യാറെടുക്കാതെ, മുൻകൂട്ടി ആലോചിക്കാതെ, തികച്ചും അനൗപചാരികമായി, തയ്യാറെടുക്കാതെയുള്ള

Origin of off the cuff

Purported to be from the habit by after-dinner speakers of jotting a few notes on the cuff of the sleeve.

Words formed from off the cuff

Questions about off the cuff

What does off the cuff mean?
Off the cuff means in an off-the-cuff manner.
What is off the cuff in Urdu?
Off the cuff in Urdu is بلاتیاری. See Off the cuff meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is off the cuff?
Off the cuff is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off the cuff in the dictionary

  1. off the books
  2. off the chain
  3. off the chart
  4. off the charts
  5. off the clock
  6. off the cuff
  7. off the deep end
  8. off the derech
  9. off the dome
  10. off the face of the earth
  11. off the grid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: off the cuff (page history and authors); off the cuff (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); off the cuff (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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