pass the hat

all hat and no cattle

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

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.

come to pass

To happen; to occur.

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.