Meaning of suck out of one's thumb | Babel Free
Definitions
To make up, to fabricate, to pull out of one's ass.
South-Africa, informal, transitive
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.