| 词汇 | eat one-s hat |
| 词源 | eat one’s hat. This is an asseveration, as the O.E.D. so neatly puts it, “stating one’s readiness to do this if an event of which one is certain should not occur.” A woman named Miss E. E. Money first recorded the phrase, in 1887, and it is sometimes given as I’ll eat Rowley’s hat. One persistent folk etymology has the hat here being “a food made of eggs, veal, dates, saffron, salt, and spices” that no one else seems to have heard of. |
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