- 1跟班、攀附的人
A -on is someone who stays close to a rich, famous, or important person, not mainly from friendship, but because they hope something will fall their way: tickets, money, introductions, a little reflected light. The feeling of the word is on purpose; if you call someone a -on, you are saying they are using the other person. It is a little old-fashioned, but still clear. You often meet it in the plural. Though actually, it is not hang + on as in a clothes . It is the person-noun of the verb hang on: to hold on, to stay attached, to not let go.
From the word’s history
Agent noun of hang on.
由 hang on「黏著不放」加 -er，指依附別人的人。
組成The person-noun of hang on (to stay close and not let go).
同家族的字
- hang onhanger-on is the person-noun of this phrasal verb
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hanger-onnoun
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Someone who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service.
- Her love was sought, I do aver, / By twenty beaux and more; / The king himself has follow'd her / When she has walk'd before. / But now her wealth and finery fled, / Her hangers-on cut short all […]
- Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toadeaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toadeaters more.
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