I'll eat my hat

I'll eat my hat
разг.; усил.
(I'll eat my hat (if))
≈ голову даю на отсечение [выражение создано Ч. Диккенсом; см. цитату]; см. тж. I'll eat my boots

‘If I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole,’ said the clerical gentleman. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Pickwick Papers’, ch. 42) — - Ну, если бы я так мало знал жизнь, вот ей-богу, я взял бы да утопился, - сказала духовная особа.

Alfred: "If you've let your business go to old billy-o and you're leaving your wife and family, it's for a woman or I'll eat my hat." Charles: "Eat it then." (W. S. Maugham, ‘The Bread-Winner’, sc. 2) — Альфред: "Ты запустил дела и бросаешь жену и детей. Такое делают только ради женщины. Провалиться мне на этом месте, если и на этот раз не замешана женщина!" Чарльз: "Ну и провались."

...if you's no Farren's bicycle, I'll eat my hat. (D. L. Sayers, ‘Five Red Herrings’, ‘Constable Ross’) — ...даю голову на отсечение, это велосипед Фаррена.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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