stays suspended in air or waits around; the third-person singular form of 'hang'.
From Old English 'hon' meaning to suspend. The word evolved through Germanic languages and maintained its core meaning of suspending something from above for thousands of years.
The phrase 'hang in there' became popular advice because it originally referred to literally holding on—now it means to persist through difficulty, showing how our metaphors come from physical experiences.
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