hang down

hang down

To dangle freely from someone or something. The puppy's droopy ears almost hung down to the ground. If you want crepe paper to hang down from the ceiling, you better get a ladder.
See also: down, hang
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hang down (from someone or something)

to be suspended from someone or something. Grasping vines hung down from the towering trees. Thousands of vines hung down.
See also: down, hang
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bog
  • bog down
  • bogged down
  • be down to (do something)
  • be down to something
  • come a gutser
  • champ down on (someone or something)
  • bear down
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
References in periodicals archive
These can be very small and barely noticeable or hang down below the outer lips.
BOYFRIEND SAID I HAVE UGLY PRIVATES
If you haphazardly toss the chock blocks behind the slat armor, the chains hang down and can get run over by the tires.
Do away with dangling disasters
An oversized mechanical Captain Morgan, 2005, is enthroned within this scene, captured and bound by thick rope to a chair, his head cracked open to expose the electrical wires that make up his brain and now hang down along with his pirate tresses.
California Uber Alles: Rachel Harrison on Paul McCarthy
Now, Pierce's putty lobes permanently hang down to a length of about 2.5 cm (1 in.).
Stretched to the limit
They look as though they fit in your ears and then hang down your back.
Aiwa HP-SN51
She put one around her neck and let the apron hang down. Later she put the part that hangs down under her tray on her lap.
New use for apron hoops. (Letters)
Poison sumac has whitish berries that hang down, and it is kind of rare.
Sweet bubbies & bouncing bet: initiating children into the joys of nature
FERGIE let her hair hang down - and her skirt ride up - as she danced the night away in Rome.
Fergie the flirty dancer; THIGHS THE LIMIT AS SHE LET'S HER HAIR DOWN
Rollings of Kidderminster sent me a letter some time ago about looking for begonias that could be planted in the garden where the flowers don't hang down.
Non-Stop begonia that holds it head up high
The roof slot is emphasised by similar graphite-painted muscular steel frames that hang down from it and are not quite clear in their purpose.
Skin tight
Therefore, another well-meaning person will put a spongy foam pad in the seat to pad their buttocks, raising their feet several inches off the floor and, since this wheelchairs foot pedals have been lost for months, their feet will hang down and not rest flat on a surface, so they will develop a plantar flexion contracture (foot drop).
Bad positioning, bad business
Instead they have strips of baleen (buh-LEEN) that hang down from their upper jaws.
Where are whales' teeth?
Two pulleys hang down from each of the three corners of this octahedron's top triangle -- the upper part of the Stewart Platform.
NIST cranks up an incredible crane
HANG ON A MINUTE: Shields's legs hang down from the vent after he got stuck halfway, right AP PHOTOORLANDO FIREDEPARTMENT, GREGG HOGGATT
LOITERING WITHIN VENT
Let your arm hang down in line with your shoulder, palm facing in.
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