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off-hand

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Adv.1.off-hand - without preparation; "I don't know the figures off-hand"


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Likewise I knew that, up to the time of my journey to Paris, she and the Frenchman had been more ceremonious towards our party--they had stood on a much more precise and delicate footing with them; but that now their acquaintanceship--their friendship, their intimacy--had taken on a much more off-hand and rough-and-ready air.
Obviously they were questions not to be answered off-hand.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand.
 
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