eat one’s hat

【字面理解】吃帽子

【英文解析】It’s used to say that something is very likely to happen.

【中文解析】非常确定

【典型例句】① They’re always late—if they get here before eight o'cIock, I’ll eat my hat.他们老是迟到-如果他们8点之前能到这儿，我就不姓王。

② One thing I do know something about—playing the stock market. And I’ll eat my hat if it doesn’t go up another three hundred points by the end of the year.有一 样东西我还懂一点儿，那就是玩股票。要是到今年年 底股票价格不上升三百点的话，我就不姓李。

【注释】通常跟if从句搭配使用。这种说法最早出现在查 尔斯?狄更斯(Charles Dickens)的《匹克威克外传》 {The Pickwick Papers)里:“If I knew as little of life as that, I，d eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole,w (如 果我对生活了解得那么少的话，我就把帽子和带扣吞 下去。)