| But if you're tagging along for the adoration you get by being her bud, eventually people will see that you're just a hanger-on. |
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| I had stood by and waited, like an idiot, a bunny-boiler, a desperate hanger-on, through my late twenties, into my early thirties. |
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| Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone. |
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| A hanger-on ran up to her with a collection of shipping tallies and informed her of the status of the ship. |
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| I had solved the question of this hanger-on and had put the unclear question of my relation with our mutual friends on a more concrete basis. |
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| Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on. |
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| Despite her ubiquity, she has been largely relegated to supporting roles — most notably, the hanger-on whom no one likes. |
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| The pesky hanger-on evidently possessed an understanding of my immune system that allopathic medicine has yet to match. |
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| Jacques Chirac isn't just a hanger-on to the wheeling's and dealings of the U. S. in the Levant, he has even tried actively to convince Bush to give today's France a free hand in the areas of former French colonial influence. |
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| But, in truth, she was just a hanger-on of the black literary crowd. |
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