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hang one's hat en · VERB
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(US, idiomatic) To reside; to call a place home.
But all my ex’s live in Texas
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee
1987 April, Sanger and Linda Shafer (authors), George Strait (singer), “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”, MCA Records“Where does Hobart hang his hat?” Slocum asked.
“His spread's up north, east of the Chugwater, and maybe north some.”
2003, Jake Logan, chapter 10, in Slocum and the Undertakers, →ISBN:
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(broadly) To identify with; to be.
I try not to make simplistic judgements on people these days. Especially over matters as trivial as where they hang their sexual hat.
2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 252:
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home is where you hang your hat · hang one's hat on