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Rattle off   /rˈætəl ɔf/   Listen
verb
Rattle  v. t.  
1.
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
2.
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise. "Sound but another (drum), and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear."
3.
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. (Colloq.)
4.
To scold; to rail at.
To rattle off.
(a)
To tell glibly or noisily; as, to rattle off a story.
(b)
To rail at; to scold. "She would sometimes rattle off her servants sharply."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Rattle off" Quotes from Famous Books



... seek comfort in the reflection that "the essence of scholarship lay in profundity and acumen rather than in the ability to rattle off pages like so many psalms." Yet those "five hundred leaves" of his ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... and forthwith drew himself up as he stood, and recited the rules for the various ways in which the English sound "oh" may be represented in Swedish, giving the proper examples under the rule. This little Nono could rattle off in grand school-recitation style, though these etymological gymnastics never bore on his ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker


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