Idiom hang up your hat to leave your job for ever.When I stop enjoying my work, that'll be the time to hang up my hat.
idiomhang up your hatto leave your job, especially permanently at the end of your working life:Police chief Ron Johnson hung up his hat today after forty years of service.After my wife retired, I decided I'd hang up my hat and enjoy myself too. —see also hang up your ___
(redirected from hang up your hat)hang up (one's) hatTo retire or cease working or performing some task or duty that one has done for a long time. I'm worried that I'm going to get a ton of work dumped on me when my boss decides to hang up her hat. |