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In my dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers I found the following under Eat Your Hat:
What you declare you will do when you are so sure of your position or prediction that the likelihood of really having to eat anything so indigestible is remote.  To "bet a hat" is a much older assertion of positiveness:  in Love's Labour' s  Shakespeare has Biron say: "My hat to a halfpenny.  Pompey proves the bet Worthy."  In Pickwich Papers  Charles Dickens has Mr. Pickwick ask, when he sees his crowded cell in debtor's prison, if he can live anywhere else, one of his prospective cellmates, a drunken chaplain, says, "Well, if I knew as little of life as that , I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle."


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