pull a Homer

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Meaning

Verb

To succeed despite idiocy.

Origin

From pull in the pattern “pull a [name]”. Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

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