Aprendendo o significado da palavra LINGER, como usá-la e alguns phrasal verbs contendo a palavra

TO LINGER: ficar em algum lugar por um longo período de tempo. Exemplos:

• The smell of onions lingers. [O cheiro de cebolas permanece por muito tempo]
• The advice she said to me lingered in my head. [O conselho que ela me disse ficou na minha cabeça]

PHRASAL VERBS COM O VERBO TO LINGER

linger around

to wait around; to be idle some place. 

• Don't linger around. Get going!
• All the students were lingering around, waiting until the last minute to go into the building.

linger on

to remain for a long time; to exist longer than would have been thought. 

• This cold of mine just keeps lingering on. 
• Some of the guests lingered on for a long time after the party was over.

linger on (after someone or something) and stay on (after someone or something)

to outlast someone or something; to live longer than someone else or long after an event. 

• Aunt Sarah lingered on only a few months after Uncle Herman died. 
• She lingered on and was depressed for a while.

linger on something

to delay moving on to the next thing; to remain at something and not move on. 

• Don't linger on that one problem so long. 
• I don't want to waste a lot of time lingering on this question.

linger over something

1. to take too much time or idle over something, such as a meal, a cup of coffee, etc. 

• I could linger over coffee all morning, given the chance. 
• Don't linger over your soup. It will get cold.

2. to dawdle over the doing of something. 

• You shouldn't linger over eating your dinner. 
• It would he best not to linger over making up your mind