Don't Eat Your Hat Meaning

Im going to win this race and then you will have to eat your hat.

Don't eat your hat meaning. This is an expression of not believing something very strongly. If she is able to walk the marathon then Ill eat my hat. An Australian demonym for South Australian people is croweater.

A simple alternative of to eat ones hat is to be very surprised. Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proven incorrect such as to eat dirt and to eat your hat or shoe all probably originating from to eat ones words which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvins tracts on Psalm 62. This expression makes an early appearance in several newspapers from the later half of the 19th century.

Answered Feb 6 14 at 459. Nevertheless its a nice story and one that many people would like to be true despite any documentary evidence to support it. I will eat my hat if the Social Democrats get in at the next general election.

Nor does eat my hat appear in print until 200 years after the last person ate a hatte. He has promised to eat his hat if he is wrong. In summary dont eat your hat.

Ill eat my hat. If there arent 30 000 people out there today he told a reporter Ill eat your hat 2. Spoken used to say that you think something is very unlikely to.

Eating veal pies is far from unpleasant and so the supposed derivation doesnt match the meaning. It is further generally believed that the ramblers were all on a chapel choir outing from one of the towns in the industrial West Riding. I will eat my hat if the Social Democrats get in at the next general election.