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List of synonyms from "handwritinging the wall" to synonyms from "hang in the balance"
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- Handwritinging the wall
- Handwritinging wall
- Handwritings on the wall
- Handwritings on wall
- Handwritings the wall
- Handwritings wall
- Handwritten
- Handy
- Handyman
- Hang
- Hang a left
- Hang a right
- Hang about
- Hang about/hang around/hang out
- Hang around
- Hang around with
- Hang by a thread
- Hang crepe
- Hang down
- Hang easy
- Hang fire
- Hang in
- Hang in suspense
- Hang in the balance
Definition of the day : « hang fire »
- As in postpone : verb put off till later time
- As in procrastinate : verb delay, put off doing
- As in stymie : verb frustrate, hinder
- As in suspend : verb delay, hold off
- As in hang back : verb be reluctant
- As in defer : verb hold off, put off
- It 's one thing to say she 's a wife: you hang fire when it 's to say she 's my sister-in-law.'
- Extract from : « Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete » by George Meredith
- If a dnouement seems to hang fire, hasten its progress by a thrashing.
- Extract from : « The Heritage of Dress » by Wilfred Mark Webb
- Well, you see—such things are often apt to hang fire for a long time.
- Extract from : « Hedda Gabler » by Henrik Ibsen
- For Marianne seemed to hang fire and hesitate over her departure.
- Extract from : « It Never Can Happen Again » by William De Morgan
- The answer was sharp, yet seemed, as soldiers say, to "hang fire" a second.
- Extract from : « Ray's Daughter » by Charles King
- If Ashley were to hang fire you wouldn't know where the devil you were.
- Extract from : « The Street Called Straight » by Basil King
- It seems to have that quality of mystery that belongs to all affairs of the kind when they hang fire.
- Extract from : « The Quality of Mercy » by W. D. Howells
- His inventions seemed to hang fire until introduced into Lancashire, when they were adopted by a Mr. Peel, Arkwright and others.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Cotton Plant » by Frederick Wilkinson
- If I put off writing the paper you asked me for, till I can do it conveniently, it may hang fire till this time next year.
- Extract from : « On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by John Ruskin
- We brushed up and watched the first signs of dawn through an open port; but the day seemed to hang fire.
- Extract from : « The Maine Woods » by Henry David Thoreau