"hang up one's hat" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hangs up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hanging up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hang<,,hung> up one's hat"
      },
      "expansion": "hang up one's hat (third-person singular simple present hangs up one's hat, present participle hanging up one's hat, simple past and past participle hung up one's hat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club",
          "text": "The film even picks up with his colleagues at the university throwing him a retirement party, but it never explores how Indy feels about finally hanging up his hat as a professor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To end one's career."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_up_one's_hat-en-verb-GyU0U241",
      "links": [
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ],
        [
          "career",
          "career"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To end one's career."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "54 15 31",
          "word": "hang up one's boots"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 46 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make oneself at home in someone's house."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_up_one's_hat-en-verb-bxRHhEmr",
      "links": [
        [
          "make oneself at home",
          "make oneself at home"
        ],
        [
          "house",
          "house"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make oneself at home in someone's house."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, hat."
      ],
      "id": "en-hang_up_one's_hat-en-verb-cAfkyX2q",
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang#English"
        ],
        [
          "hat",
          "hat#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang up one's hat"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hangs up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hanging up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hung up one's hat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hang<,,hung> up one's hat"
      },
      "expansion": "hang up one's hat (third-person singular simple present hangs up one's hat, present participle hanging up one's hat, simple past and past participle hung up one's hat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hang up one's boots"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club",
          "text": "The film even picks up with his colleagues at the university throwing him a retirement party, but it never explores how Indy feels about finally hanging up his hat as a professor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To end one's career."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ],
        [
          "career",
          "career"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To end one's career."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make oneself at home in someone's house."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make oneself at home",
          "make oneself at home"
        ],
        [
          "house",
          "house"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make oneself at home in someone's house."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, hat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hang",
          "hang#English"
        ],
        [
          "hat",
          "hat#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang up one's hat"
}