convey abandonment Keep it under your hat

Peter Drucker called it "systematic and purposeful abandonment" -- the idea that you can't do everything at once and

Keep it under your hat

Meaning

Keep it secret.

Origin

On first hearing this seems a rather strange phrase. Why should people put anything under their hats and, even if they were to, why would that be associated with secrecy? The speculation is that putting an item under one's hat would be a way of hiding it. Such trickery is recorded, as in the collection of stories published as The Adventurer, 1793:

"By a sudden stroke of conjuration, a great quantity of gold might be conveyed under his hat."

abandonment
abandonment, in law, voluntary, intentional, and absolute relinquishment of rights or property without conveying them to any other person. Abandonment also means willfully leaving one's spouse or children, intending not to return (see desertion). In many states the abandonment of a child is a criminal offense.

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1 見捨て（られ）ること, 放棄；（…の）断念((of ...))

the abandonment of the attempt
試みをあきらめること

be left in abandonment
放棄されたままになっている.

2 ((英))＝abandon².

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• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[kənvéi]
 

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1 〈言葉・身ぶり・態度などが〉〈思想・ニュース・意味などを〉（…に）伝達する((to ...))

His words convey nothing at all to me.
彼の言うことはさっぱりわからない

Please convey my deepest sympathies to them.
心からの同情の気持ちをお伝えください.

2 ((形式))〈輸送機関・媒体が〉〈荷物・乗客などを〉（…から；…へ）運ぶ, 運搬する((from ...；to ...))

The pipe conveys hot water from the boiler to the bath.
そのパイプはボイラーからふろまで湯を運ぶ

The wheat is conveyed by train to the market.
小麦は列車で市場に運ばれる.

3 〈物が〉〈音・熱・電気・においなどを〉（人に）伝える；〈病気を〉（人に）うつす((to ...))

convey a disease to a person
人に病気をうつす

Sound is conveyed by air.
空気は音を伝える.

4 《法律》（特に譲渡証書によって）〈財産・権限などを〉（人に）譲渡する, 移転する((to ...)).

［アングロフランス語←俗ラテン語conviāre（con-共に＋via道＋-are不定詞語尾＝伝達する）. △CONVOY］

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