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hung up

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hung up
adj. Informal
1. Delayed; hindered: motorists hung up in traffic.
2. also hung-up (hngp) Anxious; nervous: He got hung up on the details. She was all hung-up before the interview.
3. Overly involved or preoccupied: a teenager hung up on the latest fashions.
Translations
hung up
adj (inf) to be/get hung up about something (= be neurotic)wegen etw einen Knacks weghaben (inf)/durchdrehen (inf); (= have complex)Komplexe wegen etw haben/kriegen; he’s really hung up about things like thatwenn es darum geht, hat er einen richtigen Knacks weg (inf); to be hung up about being old/single etceinen Komplex haben, weil man alt/nicht verheiratet etc ist; he’s hung up on her (inf)er steht auf sie (sl)
hung up adj (fam) → complessato/a
hung up adj (fam) → complessato/a


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Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail.
Had them by me when the bank failed, and I had 'em framed and hung up, partly as a reminder not to put your trust in banks, and partly to give me a real luxurious, millionairy feeling.
The station-master at Crewe hung up his receiver and went about his duties.
 
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