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hang_one's_hat

hang one's hat

English

Verb

hang one's hat

  1. (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, Slocum and the Undertakers, ISBN 9781101167311, ch. 10 (Google online preview):
      “Where does Hobart hang his hat?” Slocum asked.
      “His spread's up north, east of the Chugwater, and maybe north some.”

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