hang an arse
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[edit]hang an arse (third-person singular simple present hangs an arse, present participle hanging an arse, simple past and past participle hung an arse)
- (idiomatic, archaic, slang) to hang back, to be afraid to advance.
- c. 1670, John Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II:
- For though in her he settles well his tarse,
Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse.
References
[edit]- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Hang an arse”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.