Idiom
put a hat on a hat
Meaning
To do something unnecessary, to go over the top
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That extra decoration is just putting a hat on a hat.”
“The presentation was already perfect, so adding more slides was just putting a hat on a hat.”
“By adding unnecessary flourishes to an already elegant design, the architect was merely putting a hat on a hat, obscuring the original vision.”
Examples
simple
“That extra decoration is just putting a hat on a hat.”
contextual
“The presentation was already perfect, so adding more slides was just putting a hat on a hat.”
complex
“By adding unnecessary flourishes to an already elegant design, the architect was merely putting a hat on a hat, obscuring the original vision.”
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