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Meaning of "hangers-on"
hangers-on (adjective) - Used to describe people who attach themselves to others in order to gain advantages, often without contributing anything meaningful in return. This term carries a negative connotation and implies a sense of dependence or parasitism
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K to make sure the hangers-on are comfortable.
They were flying in an aeroplane full of journalists and hangers-on.
From a distance by the hangers-on and petty officials.
Other hangers-on sometimes strayed into the late show.
Even the loyal retainers and hangers-on were expected to chip in.
It was just impossible to get any work done because of the hangers-on.
We are hangers-on with nothing to hang on to.
The second thing you need to do is pay your political hangers-on.
The hangers-on are gone and the social element fades as the tournament unfolds.
An elemental structure that does not change despite picking up various hangers-on.
And only two hangers-on of ours she has brought here for no reason.
The system encourages the survival and proliferation of these hangers-on.
The hangers-on expected grave professional debate, and perhaps a little free doctoring.
The evidence seems to suggest that in many ways we are hangers-on.
The gilets jaunes have attracted hangers-on from across the ideological spectrum.
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Always brush your pet after an excursion or walk to remove any hangers-on.
Other political relatives and hangers-on have capitalized on their proximity to political scandal.
By twisting violently she makes it hard for any hangers-on to stay on board.
And only two hangers-on of ours whom she has brought here for no conceivable reason.
I realised who are my true friends and who are the hangers-on.
You have to realize there is a lot of hangers-on around the edge of the music scene.
But few live as thoroughly in a bubble as the billionaire class and its hangers-on.
Separate myself from you pathetic hangers-on and probably eventually sue your asses.
His business model is driven by the whims of second-rate celebrities and eurotrash hangers-on.
His family struggles to cope with the hippies, hangers-on and half a million fans.
And he did not bring the Yorkshire mafia with him, Buckley has a whole gang of hangers-on.
They do not have time for hangers-on and losers making the trip any tougher.
Ganesan continued to philander and she was susceptible to favouring hangers-on with her largesse.
You have got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words.
Adams was a charismatic fellow who attracted a long line of criminal hangers-on and loose ladies.
And Ottonians were kind of hangers-on to the Carolingian Renaissance.
Gob was also wearing out his welcome with Mark and the other hangers-on.
The political class and their media and hangers-on can lie and distort the truth.
I'm set up as an object of ridicule for your druggie hangers-on.
This ever-moving assemblage of rail workers and hangers-on became known as Hell on Wheels.
It's the hangers-on who wanna feel like part of the scene.
The rivalry between the two aforementioned politicians and their hangers-on is having fatal consequences.
Some of the hangers-on from the old days.
With the dregs and the hangers-on.
We are no dependent hangers-on who are made an offer they can not refuse!
I have heard about the hangers-on here.
Hangers-on are saying anything, as long as it means getting them elected.
The rest of them are mostly hangers-on.
There is usually a few odd hangers-on in a religious house, you know ;.
Ask his fans and his five hangers-on.
It 's all these hangers-on who want to feel like they are part of the scene.
Not many servants, certainly no hangers-on standing idly by.
By all accounts, the rest of the group were more or less hangers-on.
When asked to pick a side, Hangers-On will most likely pick the middle.
Except for a couple of hangers-on.
