hang out one's shingle イディオム
hang out one's shingle
give public notice of the opening of a doctor's office etc The doctor decided to hang up his shingle as soon as he finished medical school.
hang out one's shingle|hang|shingle
v. phr.,
informal To give public notice of the opening of an office, especially a doctor's or lawyer's office, by putting up a small signboard.
The young doctor hung out his shingle and soon had a large practice.hang out (one's) shingle
To alpha a business of some kind. I'd be animated to booty on your case—after years at that law firm, I'm assuredly blind out my shingle.Learn more: hang, out, shinglehang out one's shingle
Open an office, abnormally a able practice, as in Bill's renting that appointment and blind out his bank abutting month. This American argot dates from the aboriginal bisected of the 1800s, back at aboriginal lawyers, and after additionally doctors and business concerns, acclimated shingles for signboards. Learn more: hang, out, shinglehang out one's shingle, to
To accessible an office, abnormally a able practice. This appellation comes from nineteenth-century America, back lawyers, doctors, and assorted business apropos generally acclimated absolute shingles for signboards. Van Wyck Brooks, in The World of Washington Irving (1944), wrote, “Catlin afraid out his bank as a portrait-painter.”Learn more: hang, out
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