Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

get hungabout something

English answer:

get hung up, get upset, get disturbed about something (to be hung up = to be anxiously nervous)

Added to glossary by Nikita Kobrin
Feb 6, 2003 18:27
21 yrs ago
English term

hungabout / to get hungabout

English Art/Literary Strawberry Fields Forever
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever

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hung up about/worried about

Short for get hung up about, which means get upset about, get disturbed about something. Nothing to get worried about.

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Note added at 2003-02-06 18:43:36 (GMT)
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To be hung up = to be anxiously nervous
Peer comment(s):

agree Hermeneutica : Exactly. Lovely song.
1 min
Hi Dee
agree Peter Coles
2 mins
agree Norbert Hermann
3 mins
agree Marian Greenfield
3 mins
agree Refugio : And I believe you will find that the actual lyrics separate it into two words.
7 mins
And poetic license is probably also involved here. The writer needed 3 syllables instead of 4.
agree Liv Bliss (X) : Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane - both epoch-making in their own ways.
9 mins
I taught the lyrics in a German Gymnasium in the early 70s.
agree zebung
16 mins
agree Jacqueline van der Spek
1 hr
agree jerrie
1 hr
agree RHELLER : comes from "hang-up" (like problem)
1 hr
agree Libero_Lang_Lab
1 hr
agree Gayle Wallimann
1 hr
agree Nancy Arrowsmith : man, don't you get hung up about this one
2 hrs
agree tazdog (X)
3 hrs
agree sylphw
5 hrs
agree Sunshine King
7 hrs
agree Tanja Abramovic (X)
11 hrs
agree Сергей Лузан
17 hrs
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