off the cuff

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介词短语
  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.

词源

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