Meaning of from the hip | Babel Free

Definitions

Instinctively; without planning ahead.

Equivalents

Examples

“Hasluck tells the story at a rapid pace and with racy charm. There is some refreshingly Australian talking from the hip. "When a company's being milked, you don't look for a bucket under its tits. You look up its arse."”

“By necessity, then, most of us were teaching from the hip.”

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