Idiom
eat one's hat
Meaning
Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If he actually wins the race, I will eat my hat.”
“I am so sure that the project will succeed that I will eat my hat if we fail.”
“Should the notoriously stubborn politician ever admit he was wrong, I would gladly eat my hat in the middle of the town square.”
Examples
simple
“If he actually wins the race, I will eat my hat.”
contextual
“I am so sure that the project will succeed that I will eat my hat if we fail.”
complex
“Should the notoriously stubborn politician ever admit he was wrong, I would gladly eat my hat in the middle of the town square.”
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