Basic Needs

[h1t]
-s[-ts]
Everyday Expressions
n.
He took off his hat.

n.
George wears two hats.

hat-stand

Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
--- to put on ones hat
--- to take off ones hat to sb./ to raise
ones hat to
Idioms & Slang
hang ones hat on sb. ---
keep under ones hat ---
to pass around the hat ---

Communicating Clearly
Street Talks
A: Leo had nothing to hang his hat on.
B: But I love him...
A: Dont be silly! He has nothing but his hat covering his family.

 A: If this horse doesnt come in first, Ill eat my hat.

B: Ok, lets bet on it.
Im wearing more than one hat now.
I take off my hat to Mary for her courage.
Hats off to this hospital for saving so many lives.
George passed the hat round the crowd of people.

Cultural Focus
Transcripts

You know, folks livin out of their suit cases and hat cases, and sample
cases.
Wow, great hat, mother.

Forrest: She had got the cancer and died on a Tuesday. I bought
her a new hat with little flowers on it. And thats all I have
to say about that. Didnt you say you were waiting for the
number seven bus?
Woman: Theyll be another one along shortly.
Quotations
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats,
and shrapnel.
Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926), British journalist. Shouts and
Murmurs,"Hats"(1963).

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings
and emperors is no free man.
Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805), German dramatist, poet, historian.
Kellermeister, in Piccolomini, act 4, sc. 5 (tr. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge).