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Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat Definition

English

Proverb

home is where you hang your hat

  1. Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.
    • 1948, Ruth L. Yorck, "D.P.—Short for Sorry," Twice a Year: A Semi-annual Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties, 10th anniversary issue, p. 163:
      One place is like the other let's say
      Home is where you hang your hat.
    • 2007, Leisha Chen-Young, "Sandals' Armando Pizzuti is . . . Never Satisfied," Jamaica Observer, 27 May (retrieved 4 Jan. 2009):
      "Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never," he says, "but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life," he says, "and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat."
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