"suck out of one's thumb" meaning in English

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      "form": "sucks out of one's thumb",
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    {
      "form": "sucking out of one's thumb",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "sucked out of one's thumb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1956, Debates of the House of Assembly (Hansard), Vol. 90/91/92, page 2185.\nOne 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.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make up, to fabricate, to pull out of one's ass."
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          "make up",
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          "fabricate",
          "fabricate"
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          "pull out of one's ass",
          "pull out of one's ass"
        ]
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        "(South Africa, transitive, informal) To make up, to fabricate, to pull out of one's ass."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "pull out of one's ass"
        },
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          "word": "talk through one's hat"
        }
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        "informal",
        "transitive"
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  "word": "suck out of one's thumb"
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      "form": "sucked out of one's thumb",
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      "form": "sucked out of one's thumb",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pull out of one's ass"
    },
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      "word": "talk through one's hat"
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          "text": "1956, Debates of the House of Assembly (Hansard), Vol. 90/91/92, page 2185.\nOne 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.",
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        "To make up, to fabricate, to pull out of one's ass."
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