all hat and no cattle

all hat and no cowboy

Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.

black hat

A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).

brick in one's hat

Drunkenness.

cattle call

An audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced.

does the Pope wear a funny hat

Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.

eat one's hat

Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause.

gray hat

A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.

hand someone his hat

To require someone to depart; to dismiss someone.