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  • It can mean that the person on the other end of the phone has convinced you to monitor the phone until they return. You've been placed on "hold".
  • It could be a metaphor comparing you to clothes that are being left unattended on a clothes line...same thing as "left hanging out to dry" and "left flapping in the breeze". It means that they basically don't care a lot for your wants or needs.
  • 'Hanging on the line' means 'of top quality', and refers to the practice of the Royal Academy in the 19th C. of having, in its principal exhibition room, a line eight feet above the floor. The most highly esteemed paintings were hung with top of their frames along this line, so that they were at eye-level, and thus most conspicuous and most easily seen and appreciated.

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