rattle off

present singular third person rattles off · participle present rattling off · participle past rattled off · past rattled off

1. idiomatictransitiveTo list or recite quickly.

   When I suggested it, he promptly rattled off a dozen reasons that it wouldn't work.

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   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

2. obsoletetransitiveTo 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