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Show Knocked Into a Cocked Hat. Tho expression "knocked Into a cock, ed hat" Is familiar to every one. but ' perhaps Its origin Is not so generally known. Cocked hut wns a variety of the gamo of bowls in which only throo pins were used, set up nt tho angles of a triangle. When in bowling tenpins nil were knocked down except tho three nt the corners the set wns said to be "knocked Into n cocked hot." whence the populur expression for depriving de-priving anything of Its ninln body, character or purpose. |