I'll eat my hat

idiom

informal + old-fashioned
—used to say that something will not happen or cannot be true
If he wins the election, I'll eat my hat!

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“I'll eat my hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/I%27ll%20eat%20my%20hat. Accessed 30 Mar. 2023.

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