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Titfer

idiom
Slang Cockney rhyming slang · East London

hat


Origin

via tit for tat

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all hat and no cattle

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

  2. 02

    all hat and no cowboy

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

  3. 03

    black hat

    A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).

  4. 04

    brick in one's hat

    Drunkenness.

  5. 05

    does the Pope wear a funny hat

    Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.

  6. 06

    eat one's hat

    Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause.

  7. 07

    gray hat

    A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.

  8. 08

    hand someone his hat

    To require someone to depart; to dismiss someone.

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