The old man wore a tall stovepipe hat.
stovepipe hat
idiomA type of top hat worn mainly in the 19th century, made of silk or other materials and having a very tall, cylindrical, flat-topped crown.
In the historical photograph, the gentleman stands proudly in his black suit and stovepipe hat.
The actor donned a vintage stovepipe hat to capture the iconic silhouette of the nineteenth-century president.
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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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buy straw hats in winter
Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.
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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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gray hat
A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.
Last updated April 17, 2026