单词 | to pull out of one's ass |
释义 | > as lemmasto pull (something) out of one's ass P20. to pull (something) out of one's ass: to come up with (something) without forethought or preparation, to improvise. Cf. to pull (something) out of the hat at hat n. Phrases 21. J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 43/1 records an oral use from 1974. ΚΠ 1979 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray xxviii. 360 They pulled names out of their asses and threw them around trying to describe the indescribable. 1996 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Advance-Titan 13 Nov. 9/4 You..have an uncanny knack for pulling things out of your ass when it comes to crunch-time. 2014 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 3 Ball recalls how he told a cable executive that the show was about ‘the horrors of intimacy’, adding that this was something he ‘pulled out of his ass’. < as lemmas |
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