| Despite her ubiquity, she has been largely relegated to supporting roles — most notably, the hanger-on whom no one likes. |
| 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. |
| He seemed to think that I should be content to become a hanger-on of some fine gentleman. |
| You were a leader amongst the best of them, and I was a hanger-on amongst the worst. |
| He ceased for a time at least to be a gentleman to become a hanger-on, a parasite once more. |
| I had stood by and waited, like an idiot, a bunny-boiler, a desperate hanger-on, through my late twenties, into my early thirties. |
