pull out of one's ass: meaning & examples

Meanings:

• 1.

  American Englishcolloquialvulgarslanginformal
  • To fabricate, invent, or produce something seemingly out of nowhere, often without evidence or prior preparation; to improvise an explanation, idea, or solution.

  Examples

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  • The politician seemed to pull that statistic out of his ass to support his claim without evidence.

    El político pareció inventar esa estadística para apoyar su afirmación sin pruebas.

  • I think you just pulled that idea out of your ass; it doesn’t make much sense logically.

    Creo que simplemente inventaste esa idea; no tiene mucho sentido lógico.

  • She pulled a story out of her ass to explain her absence from the meeting.

    Inventó una historia para explicar su ausencia en la reunión.