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tin hat
noun- a fool, an idiot UK
Rhyming slang for PRAT- — Ray Puxley, Fresh Rabbit, 1998
- on the railways, a company official US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 158, 1977
▶ put the tin hat on it; put the tin hat on something
to bring an unfortunate sequence to an unwelcome climax; to finish something off UK, 1919- We thought our troubles were behind us and blow us if Windsor Castle doesn’t go and burn down. Doesn’t that put the tin hat on it? — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 19, 1994
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