Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “off the cuff ” and its meaning is “without preparation, impromptu, unrehearsed, unprepared, spontaneous, unplanned, unprepared”.
Example Sentence: The law on criminal defamation needs an urgent review. Many countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States have scrapped it. India’s neighbour Sri Lanka too has done away with it. It is indeed a surrealistic (bizarre/absurd) situation where senior political leaders get jailed for making humorous or off the cuff remarks in election speeches.
This phrase is present in Making sense of the disqualification of a Lok Sabha MP and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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