Monotropa hypopithys, yellow monotropa, or bird's nest, -- in Selborne Hanger under the shady beeches, to whose roots it seems to be parasitical -- at the north-west end of the Hanger.英文原著 · 《The Natural History of Selborne》
This she did without mercy, and in time cleared herself of hangers- on, so that her banquets and assemblies were the most distinguished of the time, and the men who paid their court to her were of such place and fortune that their worship could but be disinterested.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Mass, sir, and now you speak of the fashion, Signior Prospero's elder brother and I are fallen out exceedingly: this other day I happened to enter into some discourse of a hanger, which, I assure you, both for fashion and workmanship was most beautiful and gentlemanlike; yet he condemned it for the most pied and ridiculous that ever he saw.英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
This happened often, without anyone observing it particularly; for there were many such hangers-on with the army.英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"That man will never amount to anything, Joe--mark my words. He will always be a hanger-on as we call them, in the business world."英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
Except everything that m. J. Picks up-- Whether it's a hairbrush, a hanger, everything-- He pretends it's a gun. Well, what do you expect? He's a boy.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》