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单词 to hang up one's hat
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to hang up one's hat
2. Phrases. to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.): to put aside in disuse; to give up using. to hang up one's hat: see quots.; to hang up one's boots, to give up playing a game; to hang up the spoon, to die; to hang up a record, to set up a record.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence
wickc897
telda1325
buildc1340
nestlea1382
to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400
to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425
to take one's lodgec1475
reside1490
inhabit1548
to settle one's rest1562
to sit down1579
to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584
to set (up) one's rest1590
nest1591
to set down one's rest1591
roost1593
inherit1600
habituate1603
seat1612
to take up (one's) residencea1626
settle1627
pitch1629
fix1638
locate1652
to marry and settle1718
domesticate1768
domiciliate1815
to hang up one's hat1826
domicile1831
to stick one's stakes1872
homestead1877
to put down roots1882
to hang one's hat1904
localize1930
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > cease to use
leaveeOE
to lay downa1450
abuse1471
disuse1487
to leave off1570
sink1705
to put down1733
to hang up (one's sword, gun, etc.)1826
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass what has been done or exists > set a record
to hang up a record1930
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 561 Ich mai honge vp min ax, febliche ic abbe agonne.
1595 Maroccus Ext. p. v And therewith mee thinkes I see him hang the hat upon the pin againe.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. viii. 46 Before we sheathe our sword, and hang it upon the naile.]
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 249 And having fought through the Peninsula hung up his sword non sine gloria.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. v. 78 A little more practice, and I will..hang my gun up over the chimney.
1851 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 13 Dec. 2/4 A..law abiding patriot who would hang up his hat in the White House with a single-minded resolution to serve the country to the extent of his ability.
1855 A. Trollope Warden xix. 308 Eight hundred a-year, and as nice a house as any gentleman could wish to hang up his hat in.
1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister II. ii. xx. 335 Lopez can come in and hang up his hat whenever it pleases him.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) When a man marries and goes home to the wife's house to live, he is said to ‘hang up his hat’.
1925 O. Jespersen Mankind, Nation & Individual ix. 166 There are countless variants [for ‘to die’]..take an earth bath, hang up the spoon, snuff the candle, snuff it.
1930 Publishers' Weekly 15 Mar. 1508/2 A record sale was hung up..on Tuesday... Four hundred and ten copies of the book were sold in one hour.
1938 D. Runyon Take it Easy xv. 283 Professor D. says he has no doubt that under the old rule Nicely-Nicely will hang up a record that will endure through the ages.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 44 Reside, hang up one's hat.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 132 Die, hang up one's hat.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang 242 Hang up one's hat,..to be perfectly at ease, make oneself at home.
1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 113 Some said that..he'd have had more self-respect if he'd told the girl to go and hang her hat up somewhere else.
1963 Times 23 Jan. 3/4 Johnson, Miller, and Johnston hung up their boots soon afterwards and two years later Benaud began to build the side.
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