hang sth up
— phrasal verb with hang uk/hæŋ/us/hæŋ/verb
to stop using and needing something because you have given up the sport or activity it is used for:
So when did you hang up your boxing gloves/golf clubs/ballet shoes?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- let sb be idiom
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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