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rattle off

rattle off verb: to list or recite quickly.

Verb

rattle off (third-person singular simple present rattles off, present participle rattling off, simple past and past participle rattled off)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly.
    • When I suggested it, he promptly rattled off a dozen reasons that it wouldn't work.
    • When he was 14, he could name all the Bond girls. Can he still? / He rattles off the names, from Honey Ryder to Pussy Galore to Domino to Kissy Suzuki. He said he toyed with the idea of playing James Bond and had a conversation about it at one point, but he asked if it could be a black-and-white...2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To rail at; to scold.
    • She that vvould ſometimes rattle off her Servants pretty ſharply, novv if ſhe ſavv them drink, or heard them talk profanely, never took any notice of it.1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of the Hard Shifts Mrs. Bull was Put to, to Preserve the Mannor of Bullock’s Hatch; with Sir Roger’s Method to Keep Off Importunate Duns”, in...

rattle off meaning in Bengali

rattle off in Bengali

দ্রুত তালিকা দেওয়া, পাঠ করা, তিরস্কার করা, বকাঝকা করা

Synonyms of rattle off

Forms of rattle off

third-person singular presentrattles off
present participlerattling off
past participlerattled off
pastrattled off

Questions about rattle off

What does rattle off mean?
Rattle off means to list or recite quickly.
What is rattle off in Bengali?
Rattle off in Bengali is দ্রুত তালিকা দেওয়া, পাঠ করা, তিরস্কার করা. See Rattle off meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rattle off?
Rattle off is a verb.
What is the past tense of rattle off?
The past tense of rattle off is rattled off.

Words near rattle off in the dictionary

  1. rattle around
  2. rattle can
  3. rattle canned
  4. rattle canning
  5. rattle cans
  6. rattle off
  7. rattle on
  8. rattle one's hocks
  9. rattle one's saber
  10. rattle one's sabre
  11. rattle sabres

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