"eat one's hat" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-eat one's hat.ogg Forms: eats one's hat [present, singular, third-person], eating one's hat [participle, present], ate one's hat [past], eaten one's hat [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> one's hat}} eat one's hat (third-person singular simple present eats one's hat, present participle eating one's hat, simple past ate one's hat, past participle eaten one's hat)
  1. (idiomatic) Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to express disbelief about a proposition): 批個頭落嚟畀你當凳坐 /批个头落嚟畀你当凳坐 (Chinese Cantonese), 字倒過來寫 /字倒过来写 (zì dào guòlái xiě) (Chinese Mandarin), zijn hoed opeten (Dutch), syödä hattunsa (Finnish), manger son chapeau (French), ich freß einen Besen, wenn (German), ich will Emil heißen, wenn (German), mangiarsi il cappello (Italian), 首をやる (kubi o yaru) (Japanese), comer o chapéu (Portuguese), querer ser mico de circo (Portuguese), dar a mão à palmatória (Portuguese), дава́ть голову́ на отсече́ние (davátʹ golovú na otsečénije) (Russian), que me maten si (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "syödä hattunsa"
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      "word": "ich freß einen Besen, wenn"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to express disbelief about a proposition",
      "word": "ich will Emil heißen, wenn"
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      "sense": "to express disbelief about a proposition",
      "word": "mangiarsi il cappello"
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      "word": "首をやる"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to express disbelief about a proposition",
      "word": "comer o chapéu"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to express disbelief about a proposition",
      "word": "querer ser mico de circo"
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      "sense": "to express disbelief about a proposition",
      "word": "dar a mão à palmatória"
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