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Talk Through Your Hat

Talking in a non-sense manner; talking about something without knowing about it

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  • The emergence of this particular phrase isn’t clear. There’s a conception that one might look extremely absurd and stupid if one talk through his hat and that would be a non-sense. If someone says to you that you’re talking through your hat then you probably are not saying something correct.
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Mark has this tendency to talk through his hat.

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Submitted on February 25, 2019

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التحدث من خلال قبعتك

habla a través de tu sombrero

از طریق کلاه خود صحبت کنید

छोटी सी बातें करना

너무 우통거리다.

mówić przez kapelusz

falar através do chapéu

kafandan konuşuyorsun

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