"home is where you hang your hat" meaning in English

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Proverb

Head templates: {{en-proverb}} home is where you hang your hat
  1. Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.
    Sense id: en-home_is_where_you_hang_your_hat-en-proverb-~3mTHnpF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English proverbs, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1948, Ruth L. Yorck, \"D.P.—Short for Sorry,\" Twice a Year: A Semi-annual Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties, 10th anniversary issue, p. 163",
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          "ref": "2007 May 27, Leisha Chen-Young, “Sandals' Armando Pizzuti is . . . Never Satisfied”, in Jamaica Observer, retrieved 2009-01-04:",
          "text": "\"Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never,\" he says, \"but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life,\" he says, \"and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat.\"",
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