hang together

hang together idiom
  1. Stand united, stick together, as in We must all hang together and tell the same story. [c. 1400]
  2. Cohere, constitute a consistent whole. For example, The plot lines in that movie don't hang together. [Mid-1500s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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