do something off your own batINDEPENDENT PERSON British EnglishBrE informal to do something without being told to do it 主动地做某事，自觉地做某事 She went to see a solicitor off her own bat. 她主动去找了律师。
do something off your own bat• He had made the most ancient blunder in the business quite off his own bat.• Instead, off her own bat, the girl went to see a solicitor in Newton Abbott, Devon.
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