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off the top of your head

Definition

from the knowledge you have in your memory: "What's the capital of Mauritania?" "I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but I could go and look it up."Memory and memories
(Definition of off the top of your head from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)