roll/trip off the tongue

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: to be easy to say or pronounce
The name just rolls off the tongue.

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In what amounted to more bureaucratic gold, my colleagues and I were also able to get the president to speak on several occasions about closing space around civil society—a phrase that, admittedly, does not roll off the tongue. — Sarah E. Mendelson, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2017 Arab influences roll off the tongue as part of the Swahili language, drift through the air five times a day with the azan, and skirt the seas in the form of hulking dhows largely unchanged since traders from the north first appeared on these shores. — Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2024

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