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单词 to speak at one's fingers' end
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to speak at one's (also the) fingers' end
b. to speak at one's (also the) fingers' end: to speak without preparation or premeditation; to extemporize. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or ad lib
to speak at one's (also the) fingers' end1607
extemporize1775
improvisate1817
improvisatorize1828
ad-lib1910
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A5 He was an vnskilfull Deuine..which could not at his fingers end speake of these things.
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. ii. 415 They speake at the fingers end, wheeling their heads round about, to obserue whether any marke them.
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