After forty years at the company, many employees consider hanging up one's hat and moving to the countryside.

It's common to hang up one's fiddle after decades of late-night shows.

When his friends asked where he felt settled after years on the road, he smiled and said, 'home is where you hang your hat,' then sat down at the kitchen table to boil water for tea.

When our friends joked about embezzling from the company, Tom shrugged and said, 'one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb,' which made everyone uneasy.

I won't intervene this time — give him enough rope and he'll hang himself.