[Ads-l] "off the cuff" antedated to 1934

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>
wrote:

> I picked one _off the cuff_and gave it to him for free."
>

Could this mean, "at random"? That's close enough to the required meaning
for government work.
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-Wilson
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