wear too many hats



Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

wear too many hats

business slang To hold too many responsibilities or assume too many roles at the same time. One of the pitfalls many entrepreneurs fall into when setting up a new company is to wear too many hats, which not only spreads themselves very thin, but ends up being counterproductive to the operation as a whole.
See also: hat, many, wear

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Gotzon-Basque
Harun-Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian
Shaniashə-NIE-əEnglish (Modern)
ÁKos-Hungarian
Anselme-French
ŞEhrazad-Turkish