“All hat” points to the fact they talk a lot and have all the showy stuff while “no cattle” exposes the sad truth that they had no real wealth or talent to speak of in the first place.
Big hat, likewise – he/she can talk the talk, to borrow a boxing expression, but cannot walk the walk.
Or to borrow an expression about dogs, people who are all hat and no cattle are all bark and no bite.
In short, people who are all hat and no cattle are not as good as they say they are.
All right?
Alright, here are recent media examples of such people:
1. Time to get a ringside seat for Martin O'Malley vs. Rick Perry.
In a matchup of potential 2016 presidential candidates, Maryland’s Democratic governor has his dukes up aiming at Perry, as the Texas Republican visits Maryland next week to court companies to move to the Lone Star state.
“I know from past experience that the gentleman is all hat and no cattle,” O'Malley said about Perry on Thursday night. To a Texan, those words are akin to saying, “put ’em up.”
O’Malley later told a Democratic audience that he once debated the Texas governor and “kicked his a--,” according to the Baltimore Sun. “And he’s never come back for more.”
Perry is keeping his options open for another White House bid in 2016 after announcing he won't run for re-election as Texas governor. He's spent the past year crisscrossing the country to talk up Texas as a business-friendly, low-tax state. So far, he's been to California, Illinois, New York, Connecticut and Missouri -- all states led by Democratic governors -- and he’s ruffled political feathers along the way.
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