my hat! excl.
a general excl.
![]() | Complete Stalky & Co. (1987) 58: ‘My hat! said he, throwing himself upon the banquet. ‘Who stumped up for this, Stalky?’. | ‘Slaves of the Lamp — Part I’ in|
![]() | Sporting Times 1 Apr. 11/2: Said No. 2: ‘My hat! this is a really nice girl.’ Said No. 1: ‘She is a nice girl, old chap, but that was my foot.’. | |
![]() | Mufti 268: My hat! [...] Can this thing be true? Giving up leave. | |
![]() | Tell England (1965) 117: ‘My hat!’ exclaimed White. | |
![]() | Child of Norman’s End (1967) 69: Sunday School kids! [...] My hat! | |
![]() | Shipbuilders (1954) 163: ‘My hat, Danny!’ he cried. | |
![]() | Three Men in New Suits 75: My hat, they would, would they? | |
![]() | Billy Bunter at Butlins 40: Oh, my hat! | |
![]() | Honourable Schoolboy 254: My hat! F-ing and blinding like I don’t know what. | |
![]() | Godson 119: ‘[M]y hat. Some of them look old enough to be your aunty’. | |
![]() | Rhyme Stew (1990) 39: A brazen wench cried, ‘Oh my hat!’. | |
![]() | Bend for Home 86: We’re on holidays, said Matt Donnelly. You are in my hat. Do you think I’m a gom? | |
![]() | Times 22 May 🌐 He did not swear. ‘Gracious!’ and ‘my hat!’ did duty as his most violent expletives. |
In exclamations
a general excl.
![]() | Love’s Labour’s Lost V ii: My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy. |