"pull out of the hat" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pull out of the hat"
      },
      "expansion": "pull out of the hat (third-person singular simple present pulls out of the hat, present participle pulling out of the hat, simple past and past participle pulled out of the hat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC",
          "text": "Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To select at random, or seemingly at random."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_out_of_the_hat-en-verb-aZ6kJOs1",
      "links": [
        [
          "select",
          "select"
        ],
        [
          "at random",
          "at random"
        ],
        [
          "seemingly",
          "seemingly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To select at random, or seemingly at random."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pull out of a hat"
        },
        {
          "word": "pull out of the bag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-pull_out_of_the_hat.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull out of the hat"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled out of the hat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pull out of the hat"
      },
      "expansion": "pull out of the hat (third-person singular simple present pulls out of the hat, present participle pulling out of the hat, simple past and past participle pulled out of the hat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC",
          "text": "Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To select at random, or seemingly at random."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "select",
          "select"
        ],
        [
          "at random",
          "at random"
        ],
        [
          "seemingly",
          "seemingly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To select at random, or seemingly at random."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-pull_out_of_the_hat.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pull out of a hat"
    },
    {
      "word": "pull out of the bag"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull out of the hat"
}