Meaning of hang up one's hat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To end one's career.
   idiomatic
2. To make oneself at home in someone's house.
   idiomatic
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, hat.

Examples

“The film even picks up with his colleagues at the university throwing him a retirement party, but it never explores how Indy feels about finally hanging up his hat as a professor.”

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