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Declare one's certainty that something will not happen or is untrue. This hyperbolic expression almost always follows an if-clause, as in If he's on time, I'll eat my hat , that is, 鈥淚'll consume my headgear if I'm wrong.鈥 Charles Dickens used it in Pickwick Papers (1837): 鈥淚f I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole.鈥 [First half of 1800s]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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