hang onto your hat vs hang out

hang onto your hat

phrase
  • Synonym of hold onto your hat 

hang out

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out. 

  • To spend time doing nothing in particular. 

  • To lodge or reside. 

How often have the words hang onto your hat and hang out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )