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• Hang Up Sorrow and Care — Hang Up Sorrow and Care, recorded and released in 1995, is an album by Maddy Prior with The Carnival Band. Credited artists *Maddy Prior (vocals) *William Badley (baroque guitar, lute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo mandolin, vocals)… …   Wikipedia

• hang — [[t]hæ̱ŋ[/t]] ♦♦ hangs, hanging, hung, hanged (The form hung is used as the past tense and past participle. The form hanged is used as the past tense for meaning 5.) 1) V ERG If something hangs in a high place or position, or if you hang it there …   English dictionary

• hang —    to kill by breaking the neck through suspension    Formerly, it meant death by crucifixion, but it is now standard English in the present sense, the past sense being hanged not hung:     No, Grace, we don t hang them any more. Not even… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• hang out the besom —    obsolete    to live riotously during your wife s absence    A besom is a broom, once the preferred mode of transportation of witches, the aged menial who wielded it, and, in the 19th century, a prostitute because A girl described as a besom… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• hang up your hat —    1. obsolete    to marry a wealthy woman    Especially if she provides the matrimonial home and he retires from gainful employment:     Snelling hung his hat up that is the local phrase at the abode of Ephraim Shorthouse, whose daughter Cecilia …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• hang on the bough —    obsolete Scottish    (of a female) to remain unmarried    The imagery is from unplucked and wasted fruit, although for a woman forbidden to earn her living, remaining unmarried was once less attractive than it is now:     Ye impident woman! It …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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• Battered woman defence — The battered woman defence is a legal defence representing that the person accused of an assault or murder was suffering from battered person syndrome at the material time. Because the defence is almost invariably invoked by women, it is usually… …   Wikipedia

• Swetnam the Woman-Hater — Arraigned by Women is a Jacobean era stage play, an anonymous comedy that was part of an anti feminist controversy of the 1615 ndash;20 period.Performance and publication Swetnam the Woman Hater was first published in 1620, in a quarto issued by… …   Wikipedia

• St. Louis Woman — Infobox Musical name= St. Louis Woman subtitle= caption= music= Harold Arlen lyrics=Johnny Mercer book= Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen basis= Arna Bontemps novel God Sends Sunday productions= 1946 Broadway awards= St. Louis Woman is a musical by… …   Wikipedia