Immediately.
1825. Says I to the marchant, says I; how’ll you swap watches—how’ll you swap, says I?—So then, says he to me, says he; sharp off the reel;—as ’cute a feller that, as ever you seed.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 156.
1833. I’d as good a mind as I ever had to shoot a wild deer, to have a fight with him off the reel, and settle the right of soil at once.—J. K. Paulding, ‘The Banks of the Ohio,’ ii. 78 (Lond.).
1848. [The capting] raised a gretty muss, I guess, right off the reel.—W. E. Burton, ‘Waggeries,’ p. 11 (Phila.).
1856. You have got to promise, right off the reel, that you won’t say another word on this yer subject.—H. B. Stowe, ‘Dred,’ ch. xlviii.
