Eat your hat: a statement made when you are positive that something will happen, as in "I'll eat my hat if our team loses this game."
To eat dirt simply means to endure or accept insults or bad treatment.
Literally, this is going to be a fast, rough ride and your hat will blow off if you don't hang on to it. Figuratively, we're going to do something fast with few precautions.
John loved to dance and would do so at the drop of a hat.
It is not an idiom, it means your nose is itching.
idiom means expression like a page in a book
Condescending or supercilious toward
It can mean to eat a huge amount, more than you normally would.
To eat dirt simply means to endure or accept insults or bad treatment.
It was a phrase. "Hold on to your hat, there is going to be a bumpy road ahead"!
You had to take your hat off to him based on his success.
Nothing. I'm afraid you've got the idiom incorrectly. Perhaps you actually heard "a bee in her bonnet," which means that someone has an idea that won't go away, as if there were a bee in their hat that they could not ignore.
Literally, this is going to be a fast, rough ride and your hat will blow off if you don't hang on to it. Figuratively, we're going to do something fast with few precautions.
John loved to dance and would do so at the drop of a hat.
That's not an idiom. It means just what it looks like -- something is fit for you to eat.
The idiom "at the drop of a hat" means to do something immediately or without hesitation, often at a moment's notice or without needing much prompting. It implies a willingness to act quickly or without delay.
As in "I am so hungry, I could eat a horse"- means you are extremely hungry- since a horse is VERY big.
The image is of a hat with a lot of names written on slips of paper, and someone randomly picks one. It means that someone randomly picked your name from the available pool of people.