speaking off the cuff

She has used verbose phrases when speaking off the cuff, and while a few turns of phrase have been embraced by her supporters, opponents have often criticised her for a lack of clarity.

The president was speaking off the cuff to a lawmaker on the House chamber floor after delivering his State of the Union address.

He rambles on for hours at a time, often speaking off the cuff about strange notions like magnets don't work in water and suggesting that Abraham Lincoln could have negotiated the country out of the Civil War if he hadn't wanted to be famous.

Speaking off the cuff at the opening of the two-day conference, entitled “Man-Woman Image of God – For an Anthropology of Vocations,” he blasted what he called “gender ideology” as the “ugliest danger”.

Saying that he hadn’t prepared a statement and was just speaking off the cuff, the “Industry Baby” singer also addressed his communion-inspired promotional video released last week — a sped-up clip that featured him in religious garb eating wafers and drinking wine, which he referred to as “crackers and juice.”