hang on/upon sth
— phrasal verb with hang uk/hæŋ/us/hæŋ/verb
(GIVE ATTENTION)
to give careful attention to something, especially something that someone says:
He hangs on her every word as if she were some sort of goddess.
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Paying attention and being careful
- attention
- attention span
- be good, and if you can't be good, be careful idiom
- be on (your) guard idiom
- cautious
- centre
- eye
- focus
- handle/treat sb with kid gloves idiom
- hang
- have a care idiom
- have/keep your ear to the ground idiom
- hedge your bets idiom
- middle
- pay
- the/a glare of sth idiom
- tread carefully/gently/lightly idiom
- walk
- walk on eggs/eggshells idiom
- wary
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(DEPEND ON)
to depend on something:
The safety of air travel hangs partly on the thoroughness of baggage checking.
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Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- be a question of doing sth idiom
- business-critical
- dependence
- imply
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- interdependent
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- owe it to yourself idiom
- underlying
- warrant
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