单词 | to hang one's hat on |
释义 | > as lemmasto hang one's hat on (a) to hang one's hat on: to depend or rely on (a person or thing); to have confidence in. ΚΠ 1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado viii. 118 Why that's my preacher. I hang my hat on him every time. 1966 Waste Managem. & Control (Comm. on Pollution, U.S. National Acad. of Sci.) 216 Such standards are, to be sure, ‘something to hang your hat on’ for administrative and political purposes. 1986 Network World 8 Dec. 19/1 For close to two years..vendors have hung their hats on one or two features that may have separated their products from others. 2012 B. Diggs-Brown Strategic Public Relations xii. 259 The education of what PR can and can't do is still ongoing, and we shouldn't hang our hats on any one tool or technique. < as lemmas |
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