hanger-on

All day everyday, there she was in the stockroom, switching vendor hangers for store hangers on thousands of pieces of clothes.

How much of your efforts, do you estimate, are really to cover the extra expense and burdens of these hangers on?

He saw a man in loose white clothes coming in, followed by two or three hangers-on .

As an additional sign that things were changing in the world, the president got a finger-wagging from one of Mr Wen's hangers-on.

Their dedication was mostly wasted. He was endlessly flattered by reporters and hangers-on , and addicted to women, drink, and cigarettes.

Scientists have long discounted the notion, arguing that the immense pressure differences would kill any hangers-on.

By Wu Guogong sub-light to see, recognize Wu he is famous, so quietly that he hired his hangers on.

And it could even be hangers on, you know.

Just then, one of the hangers -on said, "I can manage to get it. "

Sometimes their retinues, the hangers-on and heads of intelligence, escape too and need looking after.

Minus all of the hangers-on and involuntary expenses that I just mentioned?

a number of distant relatives were always present ? camp - followers or hangers - on , if you will.

Meetings will take place without an army of hangers-on and the G7 will only issue communiques when it feels it has something to say.

The car stood in the middle of the yard, quite unattended, the stable-helps and other hangers-on being all at their dinner.

The fourth tier, "not really royals, are what this banker calls the 'hangers on'. "

The G20 (more like 30 when you add the hangers on) does have the merit of throwing together old and rising powers.

Of course, you couldn't possibly sell hangers on TV.

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