Meaning of jahat | Babel Free

Definitions

An imagined hat that supposedly causes the wearer to accept a change.

common-gender, ironic, often

Examples

“Tag din jahat på.”

Uncritically obey me.

“Har man kun en jahat, bliver man offer for enhver tilskyndelse, hvad enten den kommer udefra eller indefra.”

If all one has is a yes-hat, one falls victim to any suggestion, whether it comes from without or within.

“En gang imellem forekom det hende, at det mest konstruktive, det mest effektive, det mest ærlige, ville være at skide højt og flot på den professionalisme, tage jahatten af, krølle den sammen og hoppe på den og så ellers fortælle de involverede jappehoveder, at de for hendes skyld kunne gå hjem og tage gas.”

Every once in a while, it seemed to her that the most constructive, the most efficient, the most honest, would be to refrain from giving a flying fuck about that professionalism, to take off the yes-hat, crumple it, jump on it, and inform the yakkers that she would not mind if they all went home and took gas.

“Hvis pjecer og jahatte kunne ændre hverdagen i innovativ retning, så ville den offentlige sektor i sig selv være arnested for massiv innovation.”

If pamphlets and blind obedience could change the everyday in an innovative direction, the public sector would in itself be an epicenter of massive innovation.

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