from the hip
English edit
Etymology edit
Extension of shoot from the hip.
Prepositional phrase edit
- Instinctively; without planning ahead.
- 1980, New Statesman[1]:
- 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[2], page 86:
- By necessity, then, most of us were teaching from the hip.