Hand someone his hat

McNeil replied, "It may have been Hitler who helped Chamberlain with his overcoat but don't forget it was the British people who handed him his hat."

You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off.

The President's men, nonetheless, view him the way the Vatican saw Galileo—as a dangerous heretic. . . . They would hand him his hat if they dared.