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Eat Hat Win Basketball Game Twenty Points Statement

Idiom Eat Your Hat
Example If we don't win this basketball game by at least twenty points, I'll eat my hat.
Meaning a statement made when you are positive that something will happen
Origin Many great writers, including Charles Dickens, have used this expression. The idea behind it is that you are 100 percent certain that some event will take place (or not take place). If the opposite of what you publicly predict unexpectedly happens, you will do something ridiculous like eat your hat. Since you expect your prediction to come true, you feel safe in promising that you'll do something stupid if it doesn't.

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