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I'd probably be in better financial shape than I am if I'd hung on to my parents' culture of always eating at home, never in restaurants.

The little girl hung on to her mother's hand while they crossed the street.

So we hung on to whatever we could at the back of the boat and waited to be rescued.

Val Valentine, 65, of Huntington Beach, Calif. , hung on to a photo of his ex-wife taken with the actor Telly Savalas in the early 1980s.

The Volhard stuff has really hung on. To this day you'll hear local park obedience instructors diagnosing all aggression as "dominance" .

If your dad happened to buy a house in London in the 1960s, and hung on to it, then your own salary (or lack of it) scarcely matters.

For example , Robert had a fear of losing his wife Jan . To make sure she didn't leave , he hung on to her .

Russia, of course, has hung on to the jewel in its imperial crown, namely Siberia.

He hung on to the distinction: don't blame the Israeli people for the actions of individual bullies.

Do we honour Newton rather than Mei simply because the west hung on to a 2000-year lead geography gave it at the end of the Ice Age?

That fellow hung on to my room and refused to clear out .

The victors, meanwhile, hung on to power long into their dotage.

She hung on to Ma and sobbed, "Oh, will he eat Sukey? "

Still, they were peasant people, and they hung on to their money by instinct.

They laughed and hung on to each other and talked to each other.