trip off the tongue1 informalSAY if a name or phrase trips or rolls off your tongue, it is easy or pleasant to say 〔某个名字或短语〕顺口 Their names trip off the tongue very easily. 他们的名字很顺口。
trip/roll off the tongue• Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.• A name which trips off the tongue.
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2 SAYto be easy to say or pronounce 很容易说出[发音] Monofluorophosphate! It doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, does it? 单氟磷酸盐！说起来不怎么顺口，是吧？
trip off the tongue• His name, "Roberto Carlos, " just trips off the tongue.• A name which trips off the tongue.
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