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Lucas21c Posted 12 years ago
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Go into the hat
Could you tell me what the 'go into the hat' means in the following sentence?
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The draw for English FA Cup Fifth Round is made today. Twenty-two teams will go into the hat for the eight matches to be drawn.
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The draw for English FA Cup Fifth Round is made today. Twenty-two teams will go into the hat for the eight matches to be drawn.
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Traditionally, such lottery-like drawings were done by placing the names into a real hat and then drawn blind, but I doubt that a real hat is used nowadays—it has become an idiom.
- Traditionally, such lottery-like drawings were done by placing the names into a real hat and then drawn blind, but I doubt that a real hat is used nowadays—it has become an idiom.
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Traditionally, such lottery-like drawings were done by placing the names into a real hat and then drawn blind, but I doubt that a real hat is used nowadays—it has become an idiom.
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