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rattle off
Idioms and Phrases
Also, reel off . Utter or perform rapidly or effortlessly, often at length. For example, The treasurer rattled off the list of all those who had not paid their dues , or She reeled off song after song . The verb rattle has been used for fast talking since the late 1300s and for other kinds of fast production since the late 1800s (George Bernard Shaw wrote of 鈥渕en who rattle off their copy鈥 in a letter of 1896). The verb reel off , which alludes to unwinding from a reel, has been used figuratively since about 1830.Example Sentences
Lucas can rattle off her unanswered questions about Stanley Wilson鈥檚 death.
Papi rattled off all the immigrants he worked alongside in his trucking days.
Is it when you can rattle off directions to a tourist without needing to check your GPS?
After being handed a mock-up of McDonald's Island, featuring chicken nuggets dancing around a skirted Big Mac under french fry palm trees, Johnson rattled off a rapid-fire series of self-referential jokes about the show's history.
He rattled off all the levels of bureaucracy 鈥 internal, the fire commission, the City Council, the mayor 鈥 that intersect with L.A. firefighters.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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