from the hip

English

Etymology

Extension of shoot from the hip.

Prepositional phrase

from the hip

  1. Instinctively; without planning ahead.
    • 1980, New Statesman‎:
      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."
    • 1993, Linda Myers, Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms: Learning From Practical Experience‎, page 86:
      By necessity, then, most of us were teaching from the hip.

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