Meaning of put a hat on a hat | Babel Free

Definitions

To do something unnecessary, to go over the top

idiomatic

Examples

“"You don't need to put a hat on a hat.” He was saying: If you comment on it, you kill it. If there's a hat already on your head, why in God's name would you put another hat on top of it? The audience doesn't like to see you wink.”

“Puccini's music is 'overblown', 'so huge' that there is a danger of putting 'a hat on a hat' if you match 'epic staging with epic music and epic slightly melodramatic acting'. Goold wanted it to feel more like Lars von Trier's musical[…]”

“I mean, it's kind of putting a hat on a hat. Nobody thinks a trip to the Hall of Doom is going to be as uplifting as one to the Hall of Justice. Nobody thinks Mount Doom or an abandoned amusement park or chemical factory would make as[…]”

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