hanging on
Refusing to quit
Hanging on means clinging or holding tightly, often with effort: She was hanging on to the edge of the cliff.
Figuratively, it describes persisting through difficulty or waiting with hope: The team is barely hanging on, I'm hanging on for better news.
To hang on someone's words is to listen with rapt attention.
- clutchingHolding tightly onto
- clingingGripping without release
- for dear lifeWith utmost urgency
- claspingHolding something firmly
- danglingSuspended and swaying freely
grasping · persisting · gripping · white-knuckled · enduring · bitter end · coping · tenacious · holding on · by a thread · weathering · desperate · fingernail · surviving · on the line · thread · persevering · continuing
- hardshipshardship, adversity, struggle, misfortune, difficulties
- captivatedspellbound, entranced, enthralled, mesmerized, rapt
- close callsclose call, near miss, narrow escape, close shave, nick of time
- things that clingvelcro, sticky, adhesive, tape, glue
hanging ongiving up
Choosing to stop trying
surrendering · quitting · capitulating · throwing in the towel · caving in
hanging onletting go
Releasing one's grasp
releasing · dropping · relinquishing · unclasping · freeing
hanging oncollapsing
Falling inward suddenly
succumbing · falling apart · thriving · flourishing · crumbling
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