rattling off

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.
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...