Where Did The Term Hat In Hand Come From

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Where did the term hat in hand come from. The American Heritage Dictionary of. Time Traveler for hat in hand. For example They went to her hat in hand asking for a change of assignment.

This procedure helped create other hat terms such as talking through your hat hat in hand and old hat. The term was used in print for the first time in 1865 in the Chelmsford Chronicle. Yorck DPShort for Sorry Twice a Year.

1948 Ruth L. When the terms doff and don were first used there was no especial connection with headgear. The woman who complained about the young water-seller was dubbed Permit Patty.

The origins of these strange little words are simply do on and do off. Fans held a collection for Stephenson and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds. So if you were mad as an atter you were as poisonous bad tempered or aggressive as an atter adder.

Doffing is the opposite of donning so anything that can be donned can later be doffed. This possible origin stems from the Prohibition era at a bar called Chumleys located at 86 Bedford Street in New York City. Hatter is a corruption of the Saxon word atter which meant adder or viper.

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