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home is where you hang your hat

home is where you hang your hat proverb: rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.

Proverb

home is where you hang your hat

  1. Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.
    • One place is like the other let's say
      Home is where you hang your hat.1948, Ruth L. Yorck, "D.P.—Short for Sorry," Twice a Year: A Semi-annual Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties, 10th anniversary issue, p. 163
    • "Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never," he says, "but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life," he says, "and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat."2007 May 27, Leisha Chen-Young, “Sandals' Armando Pizzuti is . . . Never Satisfied”, in Jamaica Observer, retrieved 04 Jan 2009

Questions about home is where you hang your hat

What does home is where you hang your hat mean?
Home is where you hang your hat means rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.
What part of speech is home is where you hang your hat?
Home is where you hang your hat is a proverb.

Words near home is where you hang your hat in the dictionary

  1. home invader
  2. home invaders
  3. home invasion
  4. home invasions
  5. home is where the heart is
  6. home is where you hang your hat
  7. home key
  8. home keys
  9. home language
  10. home languages
  11. home life

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