Your hat trivia

The answers all relate to hats.

1. What is the expression for not divulging a secret?
2. Another way of saying collecting money for on on behalf of someone (not whip round!)?
3. Admiring someone for doing something?
4. Speaking nonsense?
5. Doing some thing on the slightest provocation or pretext?
6. Going to see some one humbly?
7. What is a “tile”?
8. To enter a race for a political office or contest?
9. A gesture of respect by a man to a woman.
10. What is the Cockney term meaning hat?
11. What is the Cockney term for outdoing or defeating?
12. What does the Cockney term Woolly hat and scarf mean?
13. When I do this I am being snobbish or aloof
14. Meaning to have many occupations or functions
15. A really confident way of expressing the confidence in a particular outcome
16. Meaning really old fashioned or outmoded
17. An expression warning someone of a big surprise
18. In Texas, an individual who talks a good game, but is suspect in terms of actually delivering on his promises is said to be…
19. What kind of a person is a “cocked hat” in Cockney Slang?
20. What is the expression for three goals in a soccer game?

Answers

1. “Keep it under your hat”
2. Passing the hat around – collecting money for someone for charity or at a performance
3. Take one’s hat off to someone – for an accomplishment – “Hats off to Larry” Del Shannon for example.
4. “Talking through your hat”
5. Doing it at “the drop of a (your) hat”
6. Going to someone “hat in hand”
7. A “tile” is a gentleman’s Hat – from the late 19th century early 20th century- thought to be a Top Hat from the song “Where did you get that hat, where did you get that Tile?”
8. To “Throw your hat into the ring”
9. To tip or briefly remove your hat as a gesture of respect
10. “Titfer” is slang for hat – tit for tat
11. “Knock into a cocked hat” – well a bit lost in translation!
12. Wooly hat and scarf is “laugh”
13. When I get on “My High Hat”I am being snobbish presumably referring to high class top hats in the 19th century.
14. To “wear many hats”.
15. If you say that you will “Eat your hat” if something does or does not happen you are sure since it would not be too appetizing.
16. “Old Hat”
17. “Hang or hold on to your hat if you are in for a big surprise”. This could refer to an Edwardian Lady who chose to wear her hat at a fun fair!
18. “All hat and no cattle” – do you know a Texan who is like that?
19. A “cocked hat”is a very untrustworthy person – an informer, a rat or a “grasser”
20. Three goals is a “hat trick” – it has been used in other arenas

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