Idiom
hang heavy
Meaning
To seem to pass slowly; to crawl.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The long afternoon hours hang heavy when you have nothing to do.”
“Without any books or music to distract me, the silence in the empty house began to hang heavy.”
“As the final days of the long winter dragged on, the oppressive atmosphere seemed to hang heavy over the quiet, snow-covered village.”
Examples
simple
“The long afternoon hours hang heavy when you have nothing to do.”
contextual
“Without any books or music to distract me, the silence in the empty house began to hang heavy.”
complex
“As the final days of the long winter dragged on, the oppressive atmosphere seemed to hang heavy over the quiet, snow-covered village.”
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