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out of a hat
idiom
(alsofrom a hat)
without thinking carefully about which one to choose or what to do:
pull something out of a hatI'm just pulling these ideas out of a hat.
draw something out of a hatHe accused ministers of drawing numbers out of a hat after they said that they wanted to double the limit to around 56 days.
pick something from a hatEvery female employee had left, most picking lame excuses from a hat.
See also
pullsomething out of a/your hat
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chance and randomness
accident
accident of birth
aleatory
arbitrarily
arbitrariness
coincidence
crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
long shot
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
stumble into something
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