A lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers.
1 A tin hat will be just the thing for a fireman.
2 His tin hat slid to one side of his head at a rakish angle.
3 The potential absence of Adrian Fenlon, however, would have put the tin hat on everything.
4 Does transport minister Shane Ross have a tin hat ?
5 A twice-taken conversion by Aaron Cruden, from the touchline, put the tin hat on it.
6 My brother borrowed anybody's tin hat to collect shrapnel.
7 If he ever got through grammar school I'll eat your tin hat , paint and all.
8 Mad cow disease puts the tin hat on it.
9 Or as Colman succinctly puts it: 'The Second World War put the tin hat on it.'
10 The most useful occupation to-day is that which envolves the wearing of a " tin hat . "
11 You've mentioned no names, but I'll bet my tin hat my Aunt Tish was one of them!'
12 The sweat dripped down my face as I removed my tin hat ; my hair was wet and tangled.
14 He carried a heavy "war baby" on his back and a tin hat on his head.
15 Thus one couple were adorned, the wife with a set of tin curls, the man with a tin hat .
16 Asensio almost put a tin hat on it moments later, only for his shot to skim off the left-hand post.
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