throw your hat into the ring

hat | American Dictionary

hat
noun[ C ]
us/hæt/
a piece of clothing for the head:
a straw/fur hat
a cowboy hat

Examples of hat

hat
These usually exhibited manufactured goods, both local and imported, such as ready-made clothes, shoes, hats, crystal, leather goods or artistic crafts like photographs and pottery.
When in the sun, wear sun-protective hats with wide brims to protect the ears, face and neck nape.
And then um the boy with the pears gives the boy who just gave him his hat um three pears to divide among his friends.
It shows a man wearing a distinctive broad-brimmed hat, seated on a rock beneath a tree and looking at the cave entrance.
Eventually they come to an agreement that the wife will disguise herself as a child by putting on a straw hat decorated with flowers.
We funnel the direction together, sharing the hats of composer and engineer in solving these problems.
These scholars increasingly appear to be wearing two hats - that of their 'primary ' discipline and that of human rights scholar.
It wore a hat, conical, like a soft clown's hat, and a bulky jerkin.
So one of the boys whistles to him, and stops him, and gives him his hat back.
After calls from the crowd, the king appeared on the balcony and removed his hat in a gesture of recognition.
There were also four corresponding replica objects : hat, fork, toothbrush, and cup.
Settlers and colonial officials often associated hat wearing with insolence.
Five obscure or fringe parties with unelectable presidential aspirants also threw their hats into the ring.
Another young man in the wider semicircle wore a baseball hat.
We can take off the hat of the imperious decisionmaker with the moral imperative to preserve life at almost any cost.
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Collocations withhat

hat

These are words often used in combination with hat.

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baseball hat
Another young man in the wider semicircle wore a baseballhat.
brimmed hat
The typical costume includes jacket and brimmedhat.
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