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cocked hat

NOUN
  1. hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points

How To Use cocked hat In A Sentence

  • The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass.
  • This design knocks everything else into a cocked hat.
  • He is described as clad in black velvet; his hair was powdered and gathered behind in a silk bag; he wore knee and shoe buckles and yellow gloves; he held a cocked hat with a cockade and a black feather edging; and he carried a long sword in a scabbard of white polished leather. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism
  • You have knocked the journalists of Wales into a cocked hat with that pealer. So What's New
  • Black - and - white televisions are knocked into a cocked hat by the modern color ones.
  • The tourist trade depends too much on the cocked hat.
  • My mother is such a good cook; she knocks anyone else into a cocked hat.
  • A true professional could knock my efforts into a cocked hat.
  • At the last election, the Government won easily, knocking the Opposition into a cocked hat.
  • Now the clause that really throws things into a cocked hat in this case is the one I have asterisked.
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