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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hang for" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to express a strong desire or craving for something, but it is not widely recognized.
Example: "I've got a hang for chocolate cake right now."
Alternatives: "a craving for" or "an urge for".
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Leftist movements have a long history in Europe, and the German police are used to dealing with neo-Nazis, extreme-left "Autonomen" and other groups with much more of a hang for violence than the Frankfurt campers, who do not even rate a permanent police presence.
In the second and only other verse, "There's nae harm in taking a drappie, it ends all your trouble and strife / It gives you the feeling that when you get home / You don't care a hang for the wife". Lauder is said to have refused the song when offered it on the grounds that it glorified drink (though Fyffe offering Lauder a song he had written for himself makes this an unlikely story).
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A Sudanese court sentences a woman to hang for apostasy - leaving Islam - after she married a Christian man.
Women must be able to hold a flexed-arm hang for 15 seconds.
Wickersham lets that thought hang for a moment.
It did hang for a time in her kitchen in Connecticut.
That's where we're going to hang for a bit," Amelio explained.
Tweets about Iran, for example, start flowing quickly but then seem to hang for a while.
"The girls get to hang for a night".
DS: That's alright, I'm enjoying this, so we can hang for a while longer.
To enjoy long dinners with friends, put your feet up and hang for a while.
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