list off

list off

To enumerate the people or things on a list. A noun or pronoun can be used between "list" and "off." Once she began listing off all the things we needed to do for the wedding, it started to dawn on me how much work it was going to be. The local radio began listing names off of people who died in the attack.
See also: list, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

list someone or something off

to recite a list of people or things, one by one. She listed everyone off in order without having to look at her notes. She listed off the names of the people who are always late. Dale listed each one off.
See also: list, off
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • check off
  • a shopping list
  • a shopping list of (something)
  • shopping list
  • laundry
  • laundry list
  • a laundry list
  • a laundry list of (something)
  • bump off
  • bump someone off
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If you had to rank the most germ-filled items in your kitchen, you'd probably list off the usual suspects -- faucets, countertops and cutting boards, right?
Welding was high on the list off offerings that needed to be expanded, he said.
Junior client co-ordinator Tom Read Wilson will also return to lend a sympathetic ear to the celebs as they list off their dating woes.
There's also a Foodie List off popular spots, as well as trending round-ups and user-generated content such as 'London's best all-day breakfast spots'.
Demand for housing in the community has even attracted new single-family residential building, such as Gun Homes' Redfern Row, looking to take advantage of the supply constrained housing market.<br />"Right now you can pretty much list off all the hot areas of (Baltimore) and we have no inventory," Stephanie Bamberger, a real estate agent with Cummings & Co.
Brewington suggested leading yes or no questions, prompting Witt to list off a series of questions to ask that would require more, like what time did the client start drinking, or how many drinks had they had.
A cargo ship with about two dozen crewmen radioed for help as their vessel started to list off Batangas.
Both a full preliminary list off attendees and the interview with BARDA, is available to download online in the event "download center" at http://www.superbugssuperdrugs.com/prcom.
At one point he was heard complaining about an associate not paying his drug debt and saying he would have to take his list off him.
Once they list off the worst case scenarios they can make exit plans, and think of ways they can avoid those scenarios from occurring in the first place.
"Now shopping is about the convenience of sitting on your couch and ticking your list off with the click of a mouse.
In this offering, the family is unsure what Mrs Brown's grandson Bono wants for Christmas, and because he's already posted his wish list off to Santa, it's proving tricky to find out.
Forty-five minutes later, I was slamming the car door shut on my elbow and my bag-for-life and sprinting for the supermarket door, peeling the shopping list off my anxious top lip.
Foster + Partners (Lord Norman Foster), Rogers Stirk Harhour + Partners (Lord Richard Rogers), OMA (Rem Koolhaas) and Zaha Hadid Architects are taking part after L&L Holding narrowed its original list off 11 architects to the four selected firm.
Lively, Google Buzz, Google Video, Google Wave, Google Answers, Google TV, and Google TV 2 are just the abject failures I can list off the top of my head.