hang on

Example Sentences

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"Dere's nodding like hang-on at der critical minute."

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Well, he's not the hang-on sort that Mr. Ferriss was; nothing undecided about Captain Ward Bennett; when he's sick, he's sick; rushes right at it like a blind bull.

From A Man's Woman by Norris, Frank

Ever after it was "Uncle Isaac" or "that old hang-on," but always with a lifting of the chin in pride.

From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

Says it's nothin' but just grit and hang-on that keeps him alive.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Norman Ten Hundred went out again to hang-on or fall, to uphold the traditions dearly bought by those who had gone over the Divide a few months before.

From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by Blicq, A. Stanley