| 词组 | hang up |
| 释义 | hang up 1. hang up • hang up sth to end a telephone conversation by putting the part of the telephone that you speak into back in its usual place: ▪ She said "I'll be there in a minute" and hung up. + on ▪ Listen, I'm really sorry. Don't hang up on me! hang up the phone ▪ He hung up the phone feeling angry and upset. 2. hang up sth • hang sth up to hang things such as clothes on a hook or other object: ▪ Marlow hung up his coat and went through into his office. ▪ His wife had always ironed his shirts, polished his shoes, and hung up his clothes for him. How would he survive without her? 3. hang up sth • hang sth up if someone hangs up the equipment they use to do a job, sport etc, they stop doing the job or sport after doing it for a long time: ▪ After 25 years in the police force he finally decided to hang up his badge and take early retirement. ▪ Lee Trevino says he has no plans to hang up his spikes. (=shoes he uses for playing golf) 4. be hung up on/about sth informal to be very worried about or interested in something and spend a lot of time thinking about it, especially when this seems unreasonable: ▪ Like most teenagers I was hung up about my weight and was permanently on a diet. get hung up on/about sth ▪ Why do men get so hung up on the size of their car's engine? hang-up n C if you have a hang-up about something, you feel unreasonably worried or embarrassed about it: ▪ He has a hang-up about his nose. He thinks it's abnormally big. ▪ All parents want their children to grow up happy, balanced and free from hang-ups. 5. hang sb/sth up • hang up sb/sth usually passive AmE to delay someone or something: ▪ Sorry we're late. We got a late start and then traffic on 84 hung us up a little. ■ SIMILAR TO: delay 6. hang it up AmE to stop doing a particular activity or type of work: ▪ One day in 1986, Fred went into the boss's office and announced: "I'm hanging it up." ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑quit 7. be hung up on sb AmE informal to be very attracted to someone and not be able to change your feelings about them: ▪ "Shannon still seems to be hung up on Jeff." "Yeah, I guess it's only been five weeks since they broke up." ■ SIMILAR TO: be stuck on sb AmE informal |
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