Talking Through Your Hat? Jaan Kolk

 

Say Linda, you’re a hat lover. Do you know the origin of the expression “talking through your hat”? (Trick question – nobody does.) Jaan Kolk. 

Well Jaan, I know about ‘mad as a hatter’ and ‘hat trick’ but no idea on this one..:)

May 1891 Chicago Tribune

There seems to be agreement that the expression originated in the US the late 19th century, but nobody knew quite where it came from even in 1890. The earliest I could find it in newspaper archives was a puzzling 1886 note in the New York Sun:

“The very latest remark about the young man who has coralled everything from beer to champagne the night before and gets around morose and silent is that ‘he is talking through his hat.’ It is said that this is quite as expressive as anything he could say.

The Buffalo Enquirer
Buffalo, New York
23 Jul 1891, Thu  •  Page 5

 

 

 

 

 

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The Gazette
Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
08 Jan 1889, Tue  •  Page 8

 

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