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hang out one's shingle hang out (one's) shingleTo start a business of some kind. I'd be glad to take on your case—after years at that law firm, I'm finally hanging out my shingle.See also: hang, out, shinglehang out one's shingleOpen an office, especially a professional practice, as in Bill's renting that office and hanging out his shingle next month. This American colloquialism dates from the first half of the 1800s, when at first lawyers, and later also doctors and business concerns, used shingles for signboards. See also: hang, out, shinglehang out one's shingle, toTo open an office, especially a professional practice. This term comes from nineteenth-century America, when lawyers, doctors, and various business concerns often used actual shingles for signboards. Van Wyck Brooks, in The World of Washington Irving (1944), wrote, “Catlin hung out his shingle as a portrait-painter.”See also: hang, out |