Bubbles is the only chimpanzee hanger-on in music history. From Wordnik.com. [Shawn Amos: What's an Out-of Work Entourage to Do? Groupies, Sycophants, and Hangers-On] Reference
Mr. HART: Lucien Carr was a-- a hanger-on around the campus. From Wordnik.com. [Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education] Reference
A new picture emerging of the shady hanger-on surrounding her. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2008] Reference
Fara frowned as he saw who it was: Castler, a village hanger-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Weapon Shops of Isher]
Sure, he is a no-talent hanger-on -- the Kato Kaelin of husbands. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers: Parker Posey] Reference
It drove the last hanger-on at my sad Emmy gathering from the room. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Martin: Neil Patrick Harris Triumphs in a Much Improved Emmycast] Reference
Well, better than some Norman hanger-on from the fringes of the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
Macaulay is a smart reviewer, indifferent to truth, a hanger-on of party. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
SHAW: All the more reason he should be a hanger-on and stay married to her. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2004] Reference
Nor have you, O poor parasite and humble hanger-on, much reason to complain!. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Rupert, his son, was but a penniless hanger-on at the royal court; the manor of. From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
When he penned those words, he was just a GOP hanger-on at a right-wing think tank. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald McEntee: If They Win] Reference
He was a kind of hanger-on, I was told, of the establishment, and, though ostensibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
Now she would be the rich bereaved daughter of a famous man, not the resented hanger-on. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
If there is one personality that I don't understand, it's that of a professional hanger-on. From Wordnik.com. [Don McNay: Big Money: Why People Blow It] Reference
They, it was rumoured, tolerated Lord Hugo as a hanger-on rather than because they liked him. From Wordnik.com. [The Outrageous Dowager]
According to Rains, Steve was a "gadfly, a hanger-on guy" who was part of Bonds's inner circle. From Wordnik.com. [Barry Bonds: The Case Isn't Closed] Reference
How's this sound: 'Hollywood hanger-on suppressed Dahlia evidence because blank, blank, blank'?. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
Now the good doctor is just a hanger-on to Sturgis as he goes about his business of solving crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Jackie K. Cooper: No Evidence of Kellerman's Talent In His Latest Novel] Reference
Yet ours was the world he had chosen as his own, so he took his place bravely and simply, a hanger-on. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
In half an hour he was back with a drayman — an idle levee-wharf hanger-on who was waiting for a job. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
The solicitor is always welcome if it is known he is not a hanger-on, and that he gets in and gets out quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
I would be a rock star or, at the very least, a pathetic hanger-on to some washed-up actor (whichever is easier). From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Cubias: Not Quite Ready for My Close-up -- How I Almost (but Didn't Exactly) Make It to Television] Reference
You were either going to be a friend who helped him gain control of a disorderly existence, or a hanger-on, a sycophant. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2009] Reference
He would not be a hanger-on at the park, and, to tell the truth, he disliked his cousin quite as much as his father did. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
You mentioned the text message that Sam Lutfi sent to the on-again, off-again paparazzo boyfriend, hanger-on Adnan Ghalib. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2008] Reference
Why should she remain in this position -- a hanger-on -- forcing herself on an unwilling man who at best only tolerated her?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The old man was a hanger-on about the place, and for years had received eight shillings a week, which he had not half earned. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
Sir Thomas was a bore of the first magnitude, and an inveterate hanger-on about cabinet-ministers and other prominent persons. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
And human nature, more uncertain still, would vacillate from wing to wing, now being a Sharp's retainer, and anon a hanger-on of. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Kristol reminds me of a band hanger-on, a guy who desperately wants to be a rockstar but just doesn't have the talent and never will. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: "Were You In This Campaign Just For Me?"] Reference
She was no hanger-on about camp, but in everything but actual fighting was as useful as any of the boys she loved with all her big, warm. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
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