hangs
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
The locksmith is the guilty one, but the blacksmith hangs.
He who lies, hangs from a gallows - he who does not, hangs twice.