sich aus den Fingern saugen

Etymology
lit. 'to suck out of one's fingers'. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb
("sich" is in the dative case)


 * 1)  to think of something, to make up, to make up out of thin air, to invent (false stories, figures, etc.), to pull out of one's ass fabricate a claim with no factual basis or evidence