hatrack

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Noun1.Hatrack - a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hatshatrack - a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats
coat rack, coatrack
rack - framework for holding objects
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1964" Big Sugar takes on diet soda, One ad depicts a young pitcher winding up: "He needs a synthetically sweetened diet drink like a moose needs a hatrack."
Spinning sugar: how the sweets industry won America's heart--and gut
Hatrack. Hatrack's father, my father's friend, my father
Hatrack
(24) And so, we return to: "The picture hangs on the wall like a rifle or a hat." (25) It is not a very big jump from the hat to Duchamp's 1917 Hatrack, but it is not a jump Heidegger is making nor that he wishes to make.
Heidegger in plain sight: "The Origin of the Work of Art" and Marcel Duchamp
Use your head for something more than a hatrack. There are many benefits to this course of action such as less physical and mental trauma, more bone on the wall, a much healthier ego, etc.
School of hard knocks: class is in session for some painful lessons
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