extract the Michael
verbEtymology Facetious alteration of take the mickey.
- We've had some fun this month extracting the Michael from the Software Editor. Playing on his kind, easy going temperament we handed him a copy of Firebird's Don't Buy This and persuaded him that it was a collection of megabrill games.1985, "Don't Buy This" (video game review) in Crash (issue 17, pages 46-47)