Hat string

A hat cord is a circle around the hat on collision of hat cap and brim attached cord . It originally served to stabilize and hold the hat on the head and prevented the hat material from falling apart. The hat band serves a similar purpose . Hat strings were sometimes imaginative, fashion-dependent designs.

US cavalry hat with cord

In the Middle Ages, the hat cord was also used as a unit of measurement to control the thickness of water pipes. In order to save water, the water jet could not be thicker than a hat string when drawing water. According to the Duden, it is questionable that the German idiom: That goes (me) over the top of the hat for that goes beyond what is permitted .

The hat string can literally go off or burst in someone's anger or affect .

literature

• Lutz Röhrich : Lexicon of proverbial sayings . Directmedia Publ., Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-442-1 , CD-ROM

See also

• Lanyard It was used in the military, for example when riding fast, as a safeguard against the loss of headgear.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden , section phrases and idioms
2. ↑ Ammon, Kyvelos: variant dictionary of German ; P. 361