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单词 one's hat covers one's family
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one's hat covers one's family
b. one's hat covers one's family: one has no dependants; one has only oneself to look after. Obsolete.
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1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. 40 Suppose your 'at (hat) covers your family—wish mine did the same;..women are werry weary warmints.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 141 They would say, ‘While my hat covers my family,’..I have only one to feed.
1891 Horse & Hound 23 May 320/1 Quarters in the George Hotel, with stalls for the hacks and a bed out, that does not make much odds to one whose hat still covers his family.
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