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单词 to pull a rabbit out of a hat
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to pull (take, etc.) a rabbit out of a hat
P2. to pull (take, etc.) a rabbit out of a hat and variants: (of a conjuror) to produce a rabbit from a hat, as part of an illusion; hence in figurative or allusive use, with reference to an action that is fortuitous, surprising, or involves an element of deception. Also in similative phrases.
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1836 A.B. Engstrom Humorous Magician Unmasked 88 Experiment No. 36. To produce a live rabbit and a number of other articles from a gentleman's hat.
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 345/2 For the purpose of..bringing a rabbit or other article into a hat, etc.
1877 E. Sachs Sleight of Hand xviii. 183 The production of..rabbits from a hat is always very startling.
1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 99 I've seen a man take rabbits out of a hat, and he told us we could see how he did it, if we watched hard.
1940 A. Christie Sad Cypress ii. ii. 121 You want me..to be the conjuror. To take out of the empty hat rabbit after rabbit.
1967 Guardian 21 Sept. 7/1 Will man..control or stop the ever increasing flow of white rabbits..out of our technological top hats?
1975 Times 20 Sept. 6/5 Almost any of the Poirots of the 1930s..produce the authentic rabbit-from-the-hat shock that is the whole aim of their sort of book.
1993 R. Murphy Smash & Grab x. 124/2 On the second (and final) day of the trial the defence produced, like a rabbit from a hat, a much more impressive witness.
2003 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 30/2 (headline) Libya's ‘brother leader’ pulls yet another rabbit out of his hat.
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