hang : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a hang performed with the elbows bent
  

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• verb show no concern or interest; always used in the negative
  give a damn; give a hoot; care a hang.
  
  • I don't give a hoot
  • She doesn't give a damn about her job

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• tapestry or hangings for a chamber.

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• adjective satellite (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense
  suspensive; suspenseful; nail-biting.
  

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Dou"ble-hung` adjective

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1. Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.

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• noun a window having two sashes that slide up and down
  

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• verb be or become completely proficient or skilled in
  master.
  
  • She mastered Japanese in less than two years

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• verb show no concern or interest; always used in the negative
  give a damn; give a hoot; care a hang.
  
  • I don't give a hoot
  • She doesn't give a damn about her job

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• verb be about
  loaf; footle; mess about; lallygag; linger; lollygag; lurk; tarry; mill about; lounge; loiter; mill around.
  
  • The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
  • Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

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• verb to lag or linger behind
  drop behind; trail; drag; get behind; drop back.
  
  • But in so many other areas we still are dragging

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• verb depend on a small thing or be at risk
  hang by a hair.
  
  • His life now hangs by a thread

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• verb depend on a small thing or be at risk
  hang by a hair.
  
  • His life now hangs by a thread

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• verb fly by means of a hang glider
  hang glide; soar.
  

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• noun a rider of a hang glider
  
• noun a glider resembling a large kite; the rider hangs from it while descending from a height
  

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• noun gliding in a hang glider
  
• verb fly by means of a hang glider
  hang glide; soar.
  

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• verb be persistent, refuse to stop
  persevere; hold on; hang in; persist.
  
  • he persisted to call me every night
  • The child persisted and kept asking questions

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• verb fix to; attach
  tack on; tack; tag on; append.
  
  • append a charm to the necklace
• verb be persistent, refuse to stop
  persevere; hold on; hang in; persist.
  
  • he persisted to call me every night
  • The child persisted and kept asking questions
• verb hold the phone line open
  hold the line; hold on.
  
  • Please hang on while I get your folder

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• verb spend time in a certain location or with certain people
  
  • She hangs out at the corner cafe

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• verb be connected
  interdepend.
  
  • In my heart I can make the world hang together

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• verb put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
  
• verb cause to be hanging or suspended
  hang.
  
  • Hang that picture on the wall
• verb interrupt a telephone conversation
  

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Hang"-by` noun

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plural Hang-bies

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1. A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.

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• noun an emotional preoccupation
  
• noun an unforeseen obstacle
  rub; snag; hitch.
  

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• noun a chad that is incompletely removed and hanging by one corner
  

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• noun any of various mecopterous insects of the family Bittacidae
  

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• noun a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC
  

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• noun a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
  Pelargonium peltatum; ivy-leaved geranium; ivy geranium.
  

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• noun the upper wall of an inclined fault
  

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• noun a jury that is unable to agree on a verdict (the result is a mistrial)
  

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• noun a hang performed on the rings with the body upside down
  

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• noun a hang performed on the rings with the body stationary in a horizontal position
  

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• paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper.

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• noun a reverse hang performed on the rings
  

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• noun a hang with the arms extended in back
  

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Spar"-hung` adjective

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1. Hung with spar, as a cave.

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• noun a hang performed on the rings or parallel bars with the body erect and the arms at the sides
  

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• to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium.

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• to learn the method or arrangement of; hence, to become accustomed to. Colloq.

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• to loiter idly about.

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• to hesitate; to falter; to be reluctant. "If any one among you hangs back." Jowett (Thucyd.).

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• . (a) To hang by a very slight hold or tenure. (b) To be in an unfinished condition; to be left incomplete.

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• to let fall below the proper position; to bend down; to decline; as, to hang down the head, or, elliptically, to hang the head.

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• (Mil.), to be slow in communicating fire through the vent to the charge; as, the gun hangs fire; hence, to hesitate, to hold back as if in suspense.

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• to be in suspense.

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• to be at a standstill. "While the business of money hangs in the hedge."

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• (with the emphasis on the preposition), to keep hold; to hold fast; to stick; to be persistent, as a disease.

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• ., to be charmed by eloquence.

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• . (a) To be hung out so as to be displayed; to project. (b) To be unyielding; as, the juryman hangs out against an agreement. Colloq. (c) to lounge around a particular place; as, teenageers tend to hang out at the mall these days

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• to ask truce or quarter, or, in some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a white flag.

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• . (a) To project at the top. (b) To impend over.

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• to raise it only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of mourning.

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• to cling.

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• . (a) To remain united; to stand by one another. "We are all of a piece; we hang together." Dryden. (b) To be self-consistent; as, the story does not hang together. Colloq.

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• . (a) To regard with passionate affection. (b) (Mil.) To hover around; as, to hang upon the flanks of a retreating enemy.

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• to be, or make, dependent upon.

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• noun decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
  hanging.
  
  • the cold castle walls were covered with hangings

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