hang in
Formshangs in, hanging in, hung in
- 1To keep going, survive, or hold on through a difficult situation instead of giving up.
Like a swimmer treading water and staying afloat until the lifeguard finally reaches them.
Despite years of harsh reviews, the small bakery managed to hang in for another decade.
He chose to hang in at the company even after most of his friends quit.
Similarpersevere, persist, endure, survive, last
Oppositequit
Note
With there added it becomes the familiar phrase of encouragement, hang in there, offered to someone having a hard time. Wayne Jancik's The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders (1990) has brothers who hung in there long enough to cut a few singles. The verb takes no object. What is endured follows through, as when Pam Mitchell in 1989 praised people who had hung in through various changes and battles.
I know the treatment is rough, but hang in there.
The team had to hang in through a long losing streak before things turned around.
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