# rattle off

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/rattle-off
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To list or recite quickly.

## Examples

- She can rattle off all fifty states in under a minute.
- The waiter rattled off the daily specials so fast that I had to ask him to repeat them.
- Without glancing at his notes, the professor rattled off a dozen dates and names, his memory for historical detail apparently inexhaustible.

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