roll/trip off the tongue

phrase

: to be easy to say or pronounce

The name just rolls off the tongue.

Examples of roll/trip off the tongue in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Her name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue but neither do the 4 pieces of my name—Amy Lynn Yoon Sheehan. — Amy Sheehan, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026

Instead, they are listed by their chemical names, such as DMDM hydantoin, short for 1,3-dimethylol-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, which, as Dodson noted, doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. — Ronnie Cohen, NPR, 8 May 2025

Its name might not roll off the tongue, but it's poised to be the talk of the aesthetics industry thanks to its unique clinical profile. — Marci Robin, Allure, 2 May 2025

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

The Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, or AOIMSG if that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue for you, will specifically focus on unexplained phenomena that pass through military airspace. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2021

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