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Pulling a Sarah 

When you smoothly and nonchalantly peace out of family activities while on vacation and do your own thing.
Alison: “is Sarah coming to the beach?”
Sarah’s husband: “yeah where is Sarah. Be nice to have some helping watching our group of five little ones.”
Alison’s husband: “She’s pulling a Sarah. She went for a run and is probably sitting on the deck and having a gin and tonic.”
Pulling a Sarah by Eric Reuth July 3, 2022
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A Sarah Palin 

A pathetic attempt to elaborate on a faux pas by fabricating even more untruths rather than admitting to your blunder.

(Re: Palin's account that Paul Revere was ringing bells to warn the British, and the efforts following to validate her erroneous account of events).
My teenager wouldn't get up this morning, insisting that there was no school, and when I referenced the school calendar, he pulled A Sarah Palin by explaining that in 2012 it'll be a Saturday, and technically there is no school, uh, in the future, on this day, and that the school bells didn't ring yesterday so he knew they were going on and jumping ahead to the 2012 calendar...ah, since there were not that many seniors this year anyway. In fact, he didn't need to go to school at all. Anymore. Because of no bells.
A Sarah Palin by easilyamusedinVT November 30, 2011

pulling a Sarah 

1. When a person tells a very long but exciting story but "accidentally" forgets the point of his or her story at the climax, leaving his or her audience shocked and unsatisfied.

2. When a person "accidentally" drops his or her iPod in the toilet and kills it.
Person 1: I have to get a new iPod.

Person 2: Why? What happened to your old one?

Person 1: It fell in the toilet.
Person 2: Hahaha you pulled a Sarah! But don't worry, pulling a Sarah happens to everyone.
pulling a Sarah by MJ2.0 September 16, 2009

pulling a Sarah Palin 

to suddenly leave office for undisclosed reasons during the final term of governorship.
don't tell me you're pulling a sarah palin on me in the middle of our Madden game match!

Pulling a sarah 

Falling in love with a bizarre fictional character only to deeply regret it later in life
Lol, my daughter is totally pulling a sarah. This is going to be so funny in a few years.

a sarah hickey

when a girl with a cleft lip gives you a hickey and theres a point on the hickey from her lips
damn i was so drunk last i cant believe i hooked up with her and to make it all worse she gave me a sarah hickey
a sarah hickey by thejonwidmyer August 6, 2009

Pull a Sarah

Charlie knew his girlfriend was planning to pull a sarah, so he took off his boxers before getting into bed with her.
Pull a Sarah by Liz Lacey June 10, 2009
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trucker's tan 

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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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