| 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. |
| She was kind of a hanger-on, Cornelia was, you see, and she was used to going where she was sent. |
| Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on. |
| A hanger-on ran up to her with a collection of shipping tallies and informed her of the status of the ship. |
| He seemed to think that I should be content to become a hanger-on of some fine gentleman. |
| I had stood by and waited, like an idiot, a bunny-boiler, a desperate hanger-on, through my late twenties, into my early thirties. |
