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The art of doing nothing with your body while your mind commits a crime.
means To spend time relaxed and unhurried with someone or something, with no particular goal beyond being there.
from From Old English 'hangian,' meaning to suspend or dangle — the same root behind a picture hanging on a wall. The casual social sense ('hang out,' 'hang around') is a much later extension, picturing a person loitering the way loose fabric or a limb simply hangs: present, unbothered, going nowhere in particular.
- execution method
- kills by snapping the neck, not choking
- get the hang
- phrase comes from tool handles, not nooses
- software term
- when a program hangs, it is still technically alive
- hangout origin
- 1800s slang for where you loiter idly