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 ceased for a time at least to be a gentleman to become a hanger-on, a parasite once more. |
Despite her ubiquity, she has been largely relegated to supporting roles — most notably, the hanger-on whom no one likes. |
You were a leader amongst the best of them, and I was a hanger-on amongst the worst. |
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. |
Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on. |