[Ads-l] Antedating of "Off the Cuff"

[Shapiro, Fred]

off the cuff (OED 1938)

1922 San Francisco Examiner 4 Nov. 19/1 (ProQuest)

Horkheimer's pictures were the kind that were "shot off the cuff."

Fred Shapiro

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