##  [Expressions with the word “hat”: Put your thinking cap on!](/en/quiz/expressions-put-your-thinking-cap-on-eng)

Do you have your thinking cap on? Test your knowledge of expressions using the word “hat” by matching them with their meanings. Hats off to you if you get most of them right!

1. hold on to your hatbe patient

prepare for something shocking, surprising or intense

be unwilling to change

2. keep something under your hatkeep something a secret

save some money for an emergency

hide an object

3. be old hatbe elderly

be worn out

be dated, trite or predictable

4. talk through your hatask someone to deliver a message for you

talk nonsense or exaggerate your knowledge or abilities

garble your words

5. do something at the drop of a hatbe coerced into doing something

take on an additional task when you’re already busy

do something immediately, without a second thought

6. toss your hat into the ringrun for election or enter a contest

give up

retire

7. wear many hatsown an abundance of material possessions

take on many different roles or tasks at once

be fashionable

8. eat your hatbe extremely hungry

firmly believe that something won’t happen

lose money on a bet

9. be high-hatbe stuck in a tree

be tall

be snobbish

10. go hat in handask for something in a meek or humble manner

enter a church

take off your hat at the dinner table