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put a hat on a hat

put a hat on a hat verb: to do something unnecessary, to go over the top.

Verb

put a hat on a hat (third-person singular simple present puts a hat on a hat, present participle putting a hat on a hat, simple past and past participle put a hat on a hat)

  1. (idiomatic) To do something unnecessary, to go over the top
    • "You don't need to put a hat on a hat.” He was saying: If you comment on it, you kill it. If there's a hat already on your head, why in God's name would you put another hat on top of it? The audience doesn't like to see you wink.2017 May 16, Jeffrey Tambor, Are You Anybody?: A Memoir, Crown Archetype, →ISBN
    • Puccini's music is 'overblown', 'so huge' that there is a danger of putting 'a hat on a hat' if you match 'epic staging with epic music and epic slightly melodramatic acting'. Goold wanted it to feel more like Lars von Trier's musical[…]2020 November 12, Sarah Grochala, The Theatre of Rupert Goold: Radical Approaches to Adaptation and New Writing, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

put a hat on a hat meaning in Bengali

put a hat on a hat in Bengali

অপ্রয়োজনীয় কিছু করা, বাড়াবাড়ি করা

Forms of put a hat on a hat

third-person singular presentputs a hat on a hat
present participleputting a hat on a hat
past participleput a hat on a hat
pastput a hat on a hat

Questions about put a hat on a hat

What does put a hat on a hat mean?
Put a hat on a hat means to do something unnecessary, to go over the top.
What is put a hat on a hat in Bengali?
Put a hat on a hat in Bengali is অপ্রয়োজনীয় কিছু করা, বাড়াবাড়ি করা. See Put a hat on a hat meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is put a hat on a hat?
Put a hat on a hat is a verb.
What is the past tense of put a hat on a hat?
The past tense of put a hat on a hat is put a hat on a hat.

Words near put a hat on a hat in the dictionary

  1. put a damper on
  2. put a dent in the universe
  3. put a finger to the wind
  4. put a foot wrong
  5. put a gun to someone's head
  6. put a hat on a hat
  7. put a hurt on
  8. put a lid on
  9. put a lid on it
  10. put a name to
  11. put a pin in

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