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hang up one's hat

Verb CEFR C2

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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

hang up one's spurs hang up the boots hang upon hang with hang-glide hang-glided

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