When the introduction to a dictionary tells you how many hours went into its making, these figures were not pulled out of a hat.
Let's see you pull an excuse out of your hat.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
pull out of a hat — {v. phr.}, {informal} To get as if by magic; invent; imagine. * /When the introduction to a dictionary tells you how many hours went into its making, these figures were not pulled out of a hat./ * /Let s see you pull an excuse out of your hat./ … Dictionary of American idioms
pull out of a hat — {v. phr.}, {informal} To get as if by magic; invent; imagine. * /When the introduction to a dictionary tells you how many hours went into its making, these figures were not pulled out of a hat./ * /Let s see you pull an excuse out of your hat./ … Dictionary of American idioms
pull out of a hat — to produce irresponsibly As the conjurer produces the rabbit: The Veterinary journal said he pulled figures out of a hat to fit his arguments . (Private Eye, May 1981) Pull out of the air has the same meaning … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
pull out of the hat — verb To select at random, or seemingly at random. Syn: pull out of the bag … Wiktionary
pull out of a hat — get as if by magic, invent, imagine I didn t think that he was going to be able to find a dictionary but he suddenly pulled one out of a hat and gave it to me … Idioms and examples
pull a rabbit out of the hat — pull sth/a rabbit out of the hat INFORMAL ► to do something unexpected that improves a difficult situation: »If they want to survive the crisis, they ll need to pull something out of the hat pretty quickly. »The company s in real trouble, and… … Financial and business terms
pull sth out of the hat — pull sth/a rabbit out of the hat INFORMAL ► to do something unexpected that improves a difficult situation: »If they want to survive the crisis, they ll need to pull something out of the hat pretty quickly. »The company s in real trouble, and… … Financial and business terms
pull sth/a rabbit out of the hat — INFORMAL ► to do something unexpected that improves a difficult situation: »If they want to survive the crisis, they ll need to pull something out of the hat pretty quickly. »The company s in real trouble, and they don t seem to have any rabbits… … Financial and business terms
pull a rabbit out of your hat — pull a rabbit out of (your) hat to do something surprising. You didn t know how the story would end and then the author pulled a rabbit out of her hat, and it all made sense. Usage notes: sometimes used to describe a surprising solution to a… … New idioms dictionary
pull a rabbit out of the hat — pull a rabbit out of the (or a) hat used to describe an action that is fortuitous, and may involve sleight of hand or deception a rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat * * * pull sth/a ˌrabbit out of the ˈhat idiom (informal) to… … Useful english dictionary
