suspend by
suspend (someone or something) by (something)
To use something as a means of hanging someone or something from an elevated point or fixture. Often used in passive constructions. They suspended me by a safety harness on the end of a cable to grab the young woman from the tree. The airplanes in the diorama were suspended by pieces of fishing line.
See also: by, suspend
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
suspend something by something
to hang something by something. The workers carefully positioned the stone that was suspended by a steel cable. Will suspended the decoration by a fine thread.
See also: by, suspend
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- (someone or something) promises well
- a bird in hand
- a bird in the hand
- all right
- a/the feel of (something)
- (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
- (have) got something going (with someone)
- (you've) got to get up pretty early in the morning to (do something)
- (one) never would have guessed
- a straw will show which way the wind blows