{"id":71925,"date":"2019-08-31T05:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71925"},"modified":"2019-08-31T05:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:21:25","slug":"hang-in-there-hang-on-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hang-in-there-hang-on-in-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang In There | Hang On In There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you ask someone to <strong>hang in there<\/strong>, you are asking them not to give up, despite difficulties.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work was difficult, but I <strong>hung in there. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I had little chance of success; nonetheless I decided to <strong>hang on in there.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The company is talking about laying people off. I don\u2019t know if I should <strong>hang in there<\/strong> or quit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A sample piece of conversation<\/p>\n<p>A: \u2018I\u2019m quitting my job. My boss is very difficult to work with.\u2019<br \/>\nB: \u2018I wouldn\u2019t advice quitting. Hang in there. Things will get better.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The expressions <strong><em>\u2018keep going\u2019 and \u2018don\u2019t give up\u2019<\/em><\/strong> have very similar meanings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you ask someone to hang in there, you are asking them not to give up, despite difficulties. Work was difficult, but I hung in there. I had little chance of success; nonetheless I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[393,1041,1042],"class_list":["post-71925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-english-idioms","tag-hang-in-there","tag-hang-on-in-there"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71926,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71925\/revisions\/71926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}