1823. W. T. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, ii., 5. Hang cards! bring me a bobstick of rum slim. 1836. M. Scott, Cruise of the Midge, p. 169. ‘You be hanged, Felix,’ quoth his ally, with a most quizzical grin. 1863. Ch. Reade, Hard Cash, ii., 218. Hang the grub; it turns my stomach. 1883. R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island, p. 161. You can go hang! 1889. Sporting Times, 6 July. Hebrew Scholar: Rub up your Hebrew. Or go and hang yourself. 1890. Grant Allen, Tents of Shem, ch. xvii. Hang it all, if that’s English law, you know, I don’t thing very much of the wisdom of our ancestors. 1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 164. Hang it all. 1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 7. But ’ang it, I can’t stand the style of the silent and the stare-me-down sort. 1892. F. Anstey, Voces Populi, ‘On the Ice,’ p. 122. Stick by me, old fellow, till I begin to feel my——Oh, hang it all! To hang an arse, verb. phr. (old).—To hang back; to hesitate. 1598. Marston, Satyres, ‘Ad Rythmum.’ But if you hang an arse like Tubered, When Chremes dragged him from his brothel bed. 1637. Massinger, Guardian, v, 5. Nay, no hanging an arse. 1639–61. Rump Songs, ii., 86. Nay, if it hang an arse; We’ll pluck it from the stares, And roast it at hell for its grease. 1748. Smollett, Roderick Random, ch. lxv. My lads, I’m told you hang an arse. 1780. Tomlinson, Slang Pastoral, 2. My arse hangs behind me as heavy as lead. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. To hang in, verb. phr. (common).—To get to work; to do one’s best; to wire in (q.v.). To hang in the bellropes, verb. phr. (common).—To defer marriage after being ‘asked’ in church. To hang on by one’s eyelashes, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To persist at any cost, and in the teeth of any discouragement. To hang on by the splash-board, verb. phr. (common).—To ‘catch’ a tram, omnibus, etc., when it is on the move; hence to succeed by the ‘skin of one’s teeth.’ Fr., arcpincer l’omnibus. To hang around (or about), verb. phr. (American).—To loiter; to loaf; to haunt. To hang out, verb (common).—To live; to reside. Also (subs.), a residence; a lodging; and (American university) a feast; an entertainment. 1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. Hang out. The traps scavey where we hang out; the officers know where we live. 1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xxx. ‘I say, old boy, where do you hang out?’ Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture. 1852. Bristed, Five Years in an English University, p. 80. The fourth of July I celebrated by a hang-out. 1871. City Press, 21 Jan. ‘Curiosities of Street Literature.’ He hangs out in Monmouth-court. 1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 14. I should like to go in for blue blood, and ’ang out near the clubs and the parks. To hang out a shingle, verb. phr. (American).—To start or carry on business.