put a hat on a hat

Meaning: (idiomatic)To do somethingunnecessary, to goover the top2017May 16, Jeffrey Tambor,Are You Anybody?: A Memoir, Crown Archetype,→ISBN:"You don't need toput a hat on a hat.” He was saying: If you comment on it, you kill it. If there's a hat already on your head, why in God's name would you put another hat on top of it? The audience doesn't like to see you wink.2020November 12, Sarah Grochala,The Theatre of Rupert Goold: Radical Approaches to Adaptation and New Writing, Bloomsbury Publishing,→ISBN:Puccini's music is 'overblown', 'so huge' that there is a danger ofputting 'a hat on a hat'if you match 'epic staging with epic music and epic slightly melodramatic acting'. Goold wanted it to feel more like Lars von Trier's musical[…]2021October 5, Robb Pearlman,Live Like a Vulcan, Love Like a Wookiee, Laugh Like a Hobbit: Life Lessons from Pop Culture, BenBella Books,→ISBN:I mean, it's kind ofputting a hat on a hat. Nobody thinks a trip to the Hall of Doom is going to be as uplifting as one to the Hall of Justice. Nobody thinks Mount Doom or an abandoned amusement park or chemical factory would make as[…]

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