go ahead vs hang onto your hat

go ahead

verb
  • Used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal. 

  • To proceed with; to begin. 

  • To send communication over the radio. 

hang onto your hat

phrase
  • Synonym of hold onto your hat 

How often have the words go ahead and hang onto your hat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )