| 单词 | eat one's hat |
| 释义 | eat one's hatDeclare one's certainty that something will not happen or is untrue. This hyperbolic expression almost always follows an if-clause, as in If he's on time, I'll eat my hat, that is, “I'll consume my headgear if I'm wrong.” Charles Dickens used it in Pickwick Papers (1837): “If I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole.” [First half of 1800s] Words nearby eat one's hateating epilepsy, eat like a bird, Eaton, Eaton agent, eat one's cake and have it, too, eat one's hat, eat one's heart out, eat one's words, Eaton-Lambert syndrome, Eatontown, eat out The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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