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词汇 cocked hat
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Definition of cocked hat in English:

cocked hat

noun
  • 1A brimless triangular hat pointed at the front, back, and top.

    (前、后和顶呈尖形的)无边三角帽

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They dress in brocade costumes with cocked hats and swords, and they're known as The Immortals.
    • It is at this point that the writers and director pull a series of surprise twists out of their cocked hats.
    • Most of them sported at least one earring, but nobody except the captain wore a cocked hat.
    • The officers also still had their cocked hats, which were kept for formal occasions and for proceeding ashore.
    • When he got closer, he saw with a shock that two were dressed in 17th century clothes, with velvet coats, cocked hats, boots, pistols and swords.
    • He is a local hero and part of the city's mythology: the gentleman robber in cape and cocked hat who on his famous horse Black Bess rode from London to York in a day.
    • The cloth cap replaced the cocked hat for duty in 1841, displaying the current device by 1883 and the gold-embroidered visor in 1897.
    1. 1.1historical A hat with a wide brim permanently turned up towards the crown, such as a tricorn.
      〈史〉(帽边向上卷起的)宽边三角帽

Phrases

  • knock something into a cocked hat

    • Utterly defeat or outdo something.

      彻底击败;绝对胜过

      architecturally, Spencer House knocks Buckingham Palace into a cocked hat
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Commercially, the Beijing Olympics knocks the FIFA World Cup, which started on Friday, into a cocked hat.
      • He has the skill and style to knock the typical Booker Prize-winner into a cocked hat.
      • Several of you have written in saying that other countries can not only match England's tally, they can knock it into a cocked hat.
      • Three or four of you playing against each other in the same room still knocks online play into a cocked hat any day of the week.
      • It knocked the idea of the perfect guru into a cocked hat.
      • Yes, there's nothing I like better than paying good money to see a load of plays that knock mine into a cocked hat.
      • Well, the local medical practice have just managed to knock that malarkey into a cocked hat, believe me.
      • He knocks all those criteria firmly into a cocked hat.
      • It is also one of the finest police comics of recent times, knocking the rest of the books in the genre into a cocked hat.
      • She wasn't religious but the way she lived her life would knock the morals of most religious people into a cocked hat.

Definition of cocked hat in US English:

cocked hat

nounˌkäkt ˈhatˌkɑkt ˈhæt
  • 1A brimless triangular hat pointed at the front, back, and top.

    (前、后和顶呈尖形的)无边三角帽

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is a local hero and part of the city's mythology: the gentleman robber in cape and cocked hat who on his famous horse Black Bess rode from London to York in a day.
    • Most of them sported at least one earring, but nobody except the captain wore a cocked hat.
    • When he got closer, he saw with a shock that two were dressed in 17th century clothes, with velvet coats, cocked hats, boots, pistols and swords.
    • The cloth cap replaced the cocked hat for duty in 1841, displaying the current device by 1883 and the gold-embroidered visor in 1897.
    • It is at this point that the writers and director pull a series of surprise twists out of their cocked hats.
    • The officers also still had their cocked hats, which were kept for formal occasions and for proceeding ashore.
    • They dress in brocade costumes with cocked hats and swords, and they're known as The Immortals.
    1. 1.1historical A hat with a wide brim permanently turned up toward the crown, such as a tricorn.
      〈史〉(帽边向上卷起的)宽边三角帽

Phrases

  • knock something into a cocked hat

    • Utterly defeat or outdo something.

      彻底击败;绝对胜过

      architecturally, Spencer House knocks Buckingham Palace into a cocked hat
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yes, there's nothing I like better than paying good money to see a load of plays that knock mine into a cocked hat.
      • Well, the local medical practice have just managed to knock that malarkey into a cocked hat, believe me.
      • She wasn't religious but the way she lived her life would knock the morals of most religious people into a cocked hat.
      • Commercially, the Beijing Olympics knocks the FIFA World Cup, which started on Friday, into a cocked hat.
      • It is also one of the finest police comics of recent times, knocking the rest of the books in the genre into a cocked hat.
      • Several of you have written in saying that other countries can not only match England's tally, they can knock it into a cocked hat.
      • He knocks all those criteria firmly into a cocked hat.
      • He has the skill and style to knock the typical Booker Prize-winner into a cocked hat.
      • It knocked the idea of the perfect guru into a cocked hat.
      • Three or four of you playing against each other in the same room still knocks online play into a cocked hat any day of the week.
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