hang in
verb1
Idiomatic To remain in a particular place or status; to survive, maintain, persist, persevere; to resist.
- hang in there
- It feels important to me to have people like yourself who have "hung in" through the various changes and the various battles, because you have such a wealth of information.1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 8:
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- The brothers hung in there long enough to lay down some sunny album tracks and a few singles with names like "Come Down Baby" and "Monkey Tamarino."1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 274:
- Related terms
- hang in the balance