hang one's hat
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edithang one's hat (third-person singular simple present hangs one's hat, present participle hanging one's hat, simple past and past participle hung one's hat)
- (chiefly US, idiomatic) To reside; to call a place home.
- 1987 April, Sanger and Linda Shafer (authors), George Strait (singer), “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”, MCA Records:
- But all my ex’s live in Texas
- And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee
- 2003, Jake Logan, chapter 10, in Slocum and the Undertakers, →ISBN:
- “Where does Hobart hang his hat?” Slocum asked.
“His spread's up north, east of the Chugwater, and maybe north some.”
- 1987 April, Sanger and Linda Shafer (authors), George Strait (singer), “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”, MCA Records:
- (by extension) To identify with; to be.
- 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 252:
- I try not to make simplistic judgements on people these days. Especially over matters as trivial as where they hang their sexual hat.