What is All Hat And No Cattle?


1.

A slang phrase from the Southwestern United States, indicating a person is more image or projection than actual substance.

It is probably derived from the region's contempt for people who are not cowboys or ranchers but who try to mimic the frontiersman image through superficial adoption of the region's folkways.

President Bush's new tax plan is supposed to help the struggling middle class and revitalize the stock market. However, closer analysis reveals that he's just all hat and no cattle.


39

Random Words:

1. To add liquor to a beverage. Someone hands you a plain glass of egg nog and then asks, "Want me to Irish it up for you?" They..
1. A term coined by GB Jones and/or Bruce LaBruce of the late 80s gay punk/sleaze zine "JD's." Later validated by a new wave..
1. A knock on the door, as coined by James Joyce in the book Ulysses. It is also the longest palindrome in the dictionary. "I was ju..