hat S1 W3 / hæt / 名词 [可数名词]

1 a piece of clothing that you wear on your head :

Maria was wearing a beautiful new hat.

straw/cowboy/bowler etc hat

in a hat

a man in a fur hat

bowler-hatted/top-hatted etc (= wearing a bowler hat, top hat etc )

a bowler-hatted gentleman

2 keep something under your hat informal to keep something secret

3 be wearing your teacher’s/salesman’s etc hat ( also have your teacher’s/salesman’s etc hat on ) informal to be performing the duties of a teacher etc, which are not your only duties :

I’m a manager now and only put my salesman’s hat on when one of our sales reps is having real problems.

4 I take my hat off to somebody ( also hats off to somebody ) informal used to say you admire someone very much because of what they have done :

I take my hat off to Ian – without him we’d have never finished this project on time.

5 be drawn/pulled/picked out of the/a hat if someone’s name is drawn out of a hat, they are chosen, for example as the winner of a competition, because their name is the first one that is taken out of a container containing the names of all the people involved :

The first correct entry out of the hat on September 2nd will win a prize.

6 pass the hat around to collect money from a group of people, especially in order to buy someone a present

7 throw/toss your hat into the ring to say publicly that you will compete in an election or for a job

→ hard hat , old hat , → at the drop of a hat at drop 2 ( 5 ) , → I’ll eat my hat at eat ( 8 ) , → hang up your hat at hang up ( 3 ) , → be talking through your hat at talk 1 ( 29 )