After forty years as a detective, it's time to hang up one's hat.

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.

As the old proverb warns, a creaking door hangs long on its hinges, so we shouldn't ignore the complaints that make the most noise.

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.

He threaded the rope hangingly through the eyelets to ensure the curtain would hang straight.

The mining engineers inspected the old mine's hangingwalls for signs of collapse before continuing work.

The geologist examined the hangingwall to determine the direction of fault movement.