The gray hat in the film helps the police but steals for himself.
gray hat
idiomA morally ambiguous character; an antihero.
Origin
disputed originFrom being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil.
She writes about a gray hat who protects the city while breaking its laws.
In the novel, the gray hat protagonist, a disgraced detective turned vigilante, hunts criminals with methods that blur the line between justice and vengeance.
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all hat and no cattle
Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
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all hat and no cowboy
Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.
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black hat
A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).
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brick in one's hat
Drunkenness.
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does the Pope wear a funny hat
Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.
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eat one's hat
Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause.
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get grey hair from
To acquire great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness from (something or someone).
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give someone grey hair
To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.