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rattle off

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rattle off something
to say something quickly. She rattled something off in French that I didn't understand.
Usage notes: often used when someone gives a list of facts or other related information from memory: Walter could rattle off the statistics of players from the 1920s and ‘30s.
Related vocabulary: reel off something
See also: rattle
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And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
She hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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