off the cuff
If you speak off the cuff, you say something without having prepared or thought about your words first:
I hadn't prepared a speech so I just said a few words off the cuff.
[ before noun ] an off-the-cuff remark
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Immediately
- a stitch in time (saves nine) idiom
- ado
- at/in one fell swoop idiom
- bat
- cuff
- directly
- fell
- in a flash idiom
- instant
- instantaneous
- instantly
- no sooner said than done idiom
- pronto
- quickly
- soon
- spot
- straight
- then
- then and there idiom
- thereupon
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Not showing careful thought