off the top of your head

Meaning

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   just guessing or using your memory, without taking time to think carefully or check the facts

   Well, this is just off the top of my head, but, uh...

   I was just thinking off the top of my head.

In the movies · 2

• Well, this is just off the top of my head, but, uh...12 Angry Men1957
• I was just thinking off the top of my head.In the Heights2021

Learn it in full scenes

• 12 Angry Men1957
  • Jurors Gather in the Jury Room
  • Juror 8 Votes Not Guilty
  • The Jurors Go Around the Table

From the same entry

• at the top of the tree
• at the top of your voice
• come out on top
• from top to bottom
• from top to toe
• get on top of
• get on top of
• on top
• on top of
• on top of the world
• over the top
• take from the top

More idioms

• one of those days
• be hard on
• on the whole
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• don't ask me
• get to the bottom of
• have the time of your life
• about time
• it's no use
• the hard way
• same here