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Posted By: of troy another multi purpose word- - 09/10/03 09:44 PM
Hang--
hang on
hang up
hang out
hang of
hang for
hang it
hang dog
hang five
hanging around
hung
well hung
hanger

some like hang up-- have several meanings Hang up your clothes--My mom has a hang up about neatness.--i've been getting crank call, no messages, just hang up's.

and i suspect the people who hang around here can thing of more ways to use hang.


Posted By: Jackie Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 01:34 AM
Oh, yes, Helen! Good one. And hangers-on.

Posted By: of troy Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 02:36 AM
Glad you think so, Jackie, i'll allow some time for other to get the hang of it.

Posted By: Jackie Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 03:16 AM


Posted By: dxb Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 09:17 AM
Hanging on your every word. But I won't be drawn in this quarter.

Posted By: Faldage Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 10:51 AM
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Posted By: Jackie Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 01:07 PM
Hanged if *I know!

Posted By: Capfka Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 01:45 PM
Hanging on your every word. But I won't be drawn in this quarter.

Sorry, thought you were going on holiday, not being hanged, drawn and quartered!

Posted By: Bingley Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 02:04 PM
Perhaps the difference between hanged and hung is one for Wordwind's list of how grammar has changed?

Bingley
Posted By: tsuwm Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 02:08 PM
you might as well get hanged for a goat as for a sheep, but don't get hung up on it.

Posted By: Faldage Re: hanged/hung - 09/11/03 02:34 PM
Back to the mists of (what was it?)

Coincidence. That's what it was the mists of.
Posted By: dxb Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 02:47 PM
"We must all hang together," he said, "or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." ~ Faldage

A wonderful piece of Franklinesquerie; it shouldn't go unacknowledged!

Posted By: Faldage Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 03:35 PM
Franklinesquerie

I should have thought the source was sufficiently well known.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 05:42 PM
should have thought the source was sufficiently well known.

Well, then. Lincoln?

Posted By: Faldage Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/11/03 05:45 PM
Lincoln?

You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Dogs, on the other hand…

Posted By: of troy Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/12/03 01:12 PM
i can't believe this croud--
No one has added
hang over
and its inverse,
over hang to the list of hang idioms.

I'll hang tight, hoping you get the hang of it, and add some more that i forgot.

Posted By: maverick Re: lost cowboy - 09/12/03 01:31 PM
then there's hang Kwangford

Posted By: Jackie Re: lost cowboy - 09/12/03 01:42 PM
Who's Kwangford?
And, the hangovers on staddle stones are to keep the rats from getting to the grain! <grin>

Posted By: tsuwm Re: lost cowboy - 09/12/03 01:48 PM
>hang Kwangford

<sigh> more obscurity...
No pages were found containing "kwangford"

Posted By: Faldage Re: lost cowboy - 09/12/03 01:56 PM
hang Kwangford

Any relation to hang Kwillyums?

Posted By: tsuwm Re: lost cowboy - 09/12/03 02:05 PM
d'oh! you mean han Kwangford.
http://www.rootsaroundtheworld.info/html/artists/hanKwangford.html

(isn't British country music a bit of an oxymoron?!)
-ron dubious
Posted By: maverick Re: lost cowboy - 09/12/03 02:11 PM
> (isn't British country music a bit of an oxymoron?!)

Isn't 'British' redundant in that sentence? <g>

Posted By: consuelo I can dream here - 09/13/03 05:16 AM
Hanging in my hammock

Posted By: consuelo Ouch! - 09/13/03 05:17 AM
hang nail

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: Ouch! - 09/13/03 10:03 AM
hanging by a thread...

Posted By: Jackie Re: Ouch! - 09/13/03 03:46 PM
All these categories are, aren't they?

Posted By: Krzysztof Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/13/03 06:33 PM
What do you think about hangover?

Posted By: Jackie Re: another multi purpose word- - 09/13/03 11:58 PM
What do you think about hangover?
Well, if I had ever had one, Krzysztof, I think I would say that I don't like them.


Posted By: consuelo A different kind of hangover - 09/14/03 12:43 AM
An Fear Rua understands from some of his legal friends in the Four Courts that Chief Justice Hamilton's sporting proclivities lie more towards the soccer code - God bless the mark! - rather than towards hurling or gaelic football. Perhaps that is a hangover from his days palling around with members of the Labour Party beyond in Rathmines, in Dublin. Recent unfortunate controversies have resulted in the departure from the Supreme Court of Mr Justice Hugh O'Flaherty, a decent Kerryman (if that's not an oxymoron), who regularly follows the fortunes of his native county. So, the GAA has lost, literally, a friend in court.
http://www.anfearrua.com/ViewSectionDetail.asp?docid=599


Posted By: Jackie Re: A different kind of hangover - 09/14/03 01:11 AM
An Fear Rua--is this someone's name?

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