suck out of one's thumb

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make up, to fabricate, to pull out of one's ass. South-Africa,informal,transitive
    — 1956, Debates of the House of Assembly (Hansard), Vol. 90/91/92, page 2185. One cannot lay a charge, a charge which has simply been sucked out of one's thumb, and then say that the onus rests on the person against whom the charge has been made, to prove that it is not so.

词形变化

sucks out of one's thumb present,singular,third-person sucking out of one's thumb participle,present sucked out of one's thumb participle,past sucked out of one's thumb past

词源

Calque of Afrikaans uit sy duim suig, from Dutch uit zijn duim zuigen.
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