cocked hat

I'll do it if the beadle follows in his cocked hat; not else.

The mighty cocked hat was replaced by a modest round one.

Four shots with a four-milewide cocked hat to show their position.

At the iron gates is a small functionary in a large cocked hat.

How many assumptions did that single sentence knock into cocked hats?

But this news had the effect of knocking Mullon's personal plans into a cocked hat.

Here was one more coincidence, hut it knocked the others into a cocked hat.

You'll knock all the other girls into a cocked hat.

I hoped Arch hadn't suddenly been taken ill; that would just about put the cocked hat on things.

All of J's plans were knocked into a cocked hat.