Question

Pull a Rabbit Out of a Hat to produce something that is needed as if by magic; to unexpectedly find a solution to a problem

Accepted Answer

We were hungry, but he found some cookies in his bag. It was like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. The magician's trick of pulling a live rabbit out of an empty top hat is very old, but this expression is relatively new (from about the 1930s). The meaning has been transferred from the specific (a magic trick) to the general (producing by surprise the answer to a difficulty). Sometimes this idiom is shortened, as in, "We didn't think we had a jack to fix the flat tire, but he just pulled one out of a hat."

Idiom	Pull a Rabbit Out of a Hat
Example	We were hungry, but he found some cookies in his bag. It was like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
Meaning	to produce something that is needed as if by magic; to unexpectedly find a solution to a problem
Origin	The magician's trick of pulling a live rabbit out of an empty top hat is very old, but this expression is relatively new (from about the 1930s). The meaning has been transferred from the specific (a magic trick) to the general (producing by surprise the answer to a difficulty). Sometimes this idiom is shortened, as in, "We didn't think we had a jack to fix the flat tire, but he just pulled one out of a hat."

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