pluck sth out of the air
to say something quickly, usually because a reply is expected, without having thought about it or made certain it is correct:
"Where did you get those figures from?" "Oh, I just plucked them out of the air."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- divine
- fall
- hypothesize
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- think
- think of sth/sb
See more results »