hang
/hæŋ/ noun B2- The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn. · I don't give a hang.· They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.
Plural hangs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- hang about To linger, loiter, or stay.
- hang around To stay, linger, or loiter.
- hang back To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.
- hang in To remain in a particular place or status; to survive, ma...
- hang off To hold back; to resist moving forward with something des...
- hang on To wait a moment.
- hang onto to keep
- hang out To spend time with somebody; to regularly meet with someb...
- hang over To be threatening, to be imminent.
- hang up To put up to hang.
From the library
I only say they cost a load of money to hang, and what is the use of them, I should like to know?”
“And Tinkle gave me permission to hang two of them in his window.
She did not cry or hang her head.
Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
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