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I collect these. Additions to this list are welcome. Also, note that in some cases I don’t know the origin of the particular expression. If you have knowledge or theories of origin for anything below, I’d like to hear from you. I think you’ll enjoy these.

Talking Through Your Hat

To speak nonsense or to lie. c1885. a job interview in The World entitled “How About White Shirts”, a reporter asked a brand new York streetcar conductor what he thought about efforts to find the conductors to wear white shirts like their counterparts in Chicago. “Dey’re talkin’ tru deir hats” he was quoted as replying.]

Eating Your Hat

There isn’t any such thing like a sure thing, but that’s where this expression comes from. If you tell someone you’ll eat your hat when they do something, make sure you aren’t wearing your best hat-just in case. expression goes back at least to the reign of Charles II of Great Britain and had something to do with the amorous proclivities of ‘ol Charlie. Apparently they named a goat after him which had his same love of life including, within the goat’s case, eating hats.]

Old Hat

Old, dull stuff; from fashion. seems to range from fact that hat fashions are never stand still. The fact from the matter is the fact that hat fashions was not changing extremely fast at all before the turn from the 19th Century. The expression therefore is likely about A century old.]

Mad As A Hatter

Totally demented, crazy. did, indeed, go mad. They inhaled fumes in the mercury that was area of the procedure for making felt hats. Not recognizing the violent twitching and derangement as symptoms of a brain disorder, people made fun of affected hat-makers, often treating them as drunkards. Within the U.S., the condition was known as the “Danbury shakes.” (Danbury, Connecticut, was a hat-making center.) Mercury is not used in the felting process: hat-making — and hat-makers — are secure.]

Hat At hand

An exhibition of humility. For example, “I come hat in hand” implies that I are available in deference or in weakness. think that the origins are from feudal instances when serfs or any lower members of feudal society was required to take off their hats in the presence from the lord or monarch (remember the Dr. Seuss book “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins”?). A hat is the most prideful adornment.]

Literally to pass through your hat among members of an audience or group as a means for collecting money. Also to beg or ask for charity. origin is self-evident like a man’s hat turned inverted constitutes a fine container.]