home is where you hang your hat

proverb

Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.

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Meanings

proverb
  1. Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.

    One place is like the other let's say Home is where you hang your hat.

    1948, Ruth L. Yorck, "D.P.—Short for Sorry," Twice a Year: A Semi-annual Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties, 10th anniversary issue, p. 163
    1 more example

    "Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never," he says, "but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life," he says, "and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat."

    2007 May 27, Leisha Chen-Young, “Sandals' Armando Pizzuti is . . . Never Satisfied”, in Jamaica Observer, retrieved 04 Jan 2009
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APA

home is where you hang your hat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20is%20where%20you%20hang%20your%20hat

MLA

“home is where you hang your hat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20is%20where%20you%20hang%20your%20hat. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “home is where you hang your hat,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/home%20is%20where%20you%20hang%20your%20hat.

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