wear too many hats
To try to fill more roles at once than is realistically possible.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“I wear too many hats at this small company.”
“She is struggling because she wears too many hats, acting as both the manager and the accountant.”
“The director realized that the project failed because he wore too many hats, ultimately neglecting his core responsibilities.”
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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 August 10, 2026