hang out your 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.
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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.
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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 your shingle
activate to practise a profession. North American The capital and oldest faculty of shingle is ‘a board beam tile’, but in the aboriginal 19th aeon the chat developed the added accepted faculty of ‘a allotment of board’, while in the USA it additionally acquired the accurate acceptation ‘a baby signboard’. Literally, hanging out your shingle refers to blind up a assurance that advertises your profession.Learn more: hang, out, shinglehang out/up your ˈshingle
(American English, informal) alpha to do business from your home, abnormally as a doctor or a lawyer: After graduating, he absitively to adhere out a bank as a consultant.Learn more: hang, out, shingle, up
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