To leave someone waiting in anticipation of one's response.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leave someone hanging

A paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told will occur at an unexpected time. It is based on the idea that a prisoner, told that he will be hanged on a day unknown to him, concludes that "I cannot be hanged on Friday because if I haven't been hanged by the end of Thursday then it would no longer be a surprise", and so on backwards through the week.

(US, slang, idiomatic) To make a right turn while driving a vehicle.

(US, slang, idiomatic) Make a left turn while driving a vehicle.

(intransitive, Canada, US slang) To turn left, to take a left turn.

(intransitive, US slang) To turn right, to take a right turn.

(intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To spend time doing nothing in particular. / (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To lodge or reside. / (dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.

(climbing) The situation of hanging on the rope after falling off a climb. / (obsolete) A rascal, one fit to be executed by hanging.

(idiomatic) to stay, linger or loiter / (idiomatic) to spend time or be friends (especially to hang around with someone)