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rattle off en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly.
   • When he was 14, he could name all the Bond girls. Can he still? / He rattles off the names, from Honey Ryder to Pussy Galore to Domino to Kissy Suzuki. He said he toyed with the idea of playing James Bond and had a conversation about it at one point, but he asked if it could be a black-and-white period piece set in the ’50s. 2022 October 22, Maureen Dowd, “Ralph Fiennes, Master of Monsters”, in The New York Times:
   • 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 John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 36:

Forms

Synonyms

trot out · rhyme off · reel off

Translations (16)

es declamar de carrerilla (list or recite quickly) · es enumerar de carrerilla (list or recite quickly) · ru отбараба́нивать (list or recite quickly) · es recitar de carrerilla (list or recite quickly) · sv rabbla upp (list or recite quickly) · de herunterrattern (list or recite quickly) · fi luetella (list or recite quickly) · es citar de carrerilla (list or recite quickly) · no ramse opp (list or recite quickly) · fr débiter rapidement (list or recite quickly) · fr énumérer rapidement (list or recite quickly) · ru отбараба́нить (list or recite quickly) · fi ladella (list or recite quickly) · es decir de carrerilla (list or recite quickly) · ru оттараба́нивать (list or recite quickly) · ru оттараба́нить (list or recite quickly)