extract the urine
to mock, make fun of something
Now, Merilyn is neither bizarre nor eccentric in the ordinary sense but when she started talking about the ‘presence’ in her shop I thought she was extracting the urine.
noun
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
vanilla extract
extract of beef
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
verb
To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
to extract an essential oil from a plant
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
extract a passage from a text.
extract a line from a song.
To select parts of a whole
We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
To determine (a root of a number).
Please extract the cube root of 27.
[…] Mr. Nackybal was thoroughly examined, both in cubing and extracting, from the table that Louit had provided.