Nothing - If you "take off your hat to someone" you are acknowledging a talent, accomplishment or effort of that person.
You had to take your hat off to him based on his success.
It means that u are weak o fragile like a straw hat is fragile.
Up until the early 1950's when men wore hats it was etiquette when they met a woman or entered a building; especially a church, that they removed their hat. Most men do not wear hats and if they do it may be a golf hat or a sports hat of some sort and there is no need to remove their hat. In some military schools taking one's hat off is customary on certain occasions.Removing one's hat has been a sign of respect since medieval times. It began by removing the hat in church to show respect for God.If you tell someone "I take my hat off to you," then you are saying "I acknowledge your superiority in that subject or event."
To challenge you.
calling someone a hat rack is a comment on their intelligence. As in they are smart enough to get a job as a hat rack. They stand around and do nothing. Almost as bad as calling them a waste of space, but more like someone found a use for them
Removing one's hat has been a sign of respect since medieval times. It began by removing the hat in church to show respect for God.
The image is of a gathering where someone is passing around an upturned hat for people to put money into. It means that you're collecting money.
As i understand it, it is a way, or saying that shows respect to someone for there acomplishments or actions.
It is traditional etiquette to take your hat off in buildings, churches, courthouses and even restaurants. It is considered rude not to take your hat off to someone in authority such as a judge in a court. For some reason some women did not do this practice .... possibly because their hairdos and hats were held in place by hat pins and they could not readily take their hat off.
That wearing a hat would make you loose hair is a myth. There is no scientific proof of that. It's just something people say when they want someone to take of their hat.
It means for you to keep your hat. Perhaps you are thinking of "keep this under your hat," which means "keep it to yourself" or "keep it secret." The image is of someone hiding something beneath their hat, on top of their head, where only they know it's there.
Its not the hat, someone shrunk my head.