высосанный из пальца

contrived (bigmaxus); outlandish (Many people might dismiss this example as being outlandish, but it actually isn't that far off from the absurd design decisions that are made all the time by people who just aren't thinking about what they're doing. • Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, called the premise of the lawsuit "outlandish.

polygon.com 4uzhoj); trumped-up (sea holly)

nief.

farfetched (fa158); concocted out of thin air (I can't trust you. Your story concocted out of thin air! – Я не могу вам поверить, потому что ваша история высосана из пальца! Franka_LV); out of thin air (Franka_LV)

przen.

plucked from the air (The figure was ~. Linch)

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posp.

fabricate (Anglophile); dream the whole thing up (Anglophile); make something up (Anglophile); cook up (grafleonov); make up (grafleonov); pull out of a hat (grafleonov); concoct (Anglophile); dream up (grafleonov); dream something up (Alexander Demidov)

makar.

out of thin air

makar., nief.

dream the whole thing up (что-либо); fabricate something (что-либо)

makar., przysł.

spin something out of thin air

nief.

dream up

slang

make something out of thin air

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nief.