pass the hat around

Well, a half dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, "Let him pass the hat around!"

Bellowing the "Marseillaise" at us, he then passed the hat around the table.

Instead, during the intermission the Amatos would "pass the hat around" for contributions.

Airbus will anyway soon be passing the hat around again for an enormous 700-seat aeroplane, much bigger than the Boeing 747.

But the Jets' owner, Ben Hatskin, passed the hat around the league and came up with a million dollars.

Pass The Hat Around - (November 2007)

To be fair, Aluko had been the subject of a colourful newspaper account which declared that his family had passed the hat around to raise the cash which broke the deadlock with Aberdeen over his services.

The study, by economists at Harvard and Columbia universities, finds that if a great teacher is leaving, parents should hold bake sales or pass the hat around in hopes of collectively offering the teacher as much as a $100,000 bonus to stay for an extra year.

He even "passed the hat around among friends," including Ronald O. Perelman of Revlon, John R. Young of the Florence J. Gould Foundation, Michel Fribourg of the Fribourg Foundation and Philippe Pelletier of Air France.