Before the days of the internet, finding a casual partner meant putting in some effort: chatting up someone in a bar, say, or hanging about in a shady spot known to be frequented by like-minded people.
In retrospect, perhaps this is due to all the hanging about in fields in mocked-up nuclear bunkers, or spending Saturdays in town, not shopping, but handing out leaflets about the housing association.
But that night, after the show, there were two men in dark suits hanging about.
He can't get half of you, or only certain bits of you, or have you on the side or in the wings, hanging about, waiting.
A half-hearted racing motif persists in racing silks hanging about and racetrack related photographs and posters, but this theme is still a bit of a stretch, conflicting as it does with terra cotta tiles, stonework and arches, which were custom made to reflect the Tuscan interior of an Italian restaurant that once occupied this site.
People weren't supposed to sell records, apparently, but if your name was Adele, your second album, "21," didn't leave the upper reaches of the Billboard Top 200 chart in the forty weeks since its American release (usually hanging about in the top ten).
The mood is mournful and resigned, with the threat of violence hanging about in the wings.
There's a sort of stagnant, perfumed loveliness just hanging about in your movie.
Surely sexually challenged teenagers and elderly men in anoraks have been hanging about at Clapham Junction for longer than that.
