Held Phrases

Phrases

• Can't hold a candle to
• Cop hold of that
• Don't hold your breath
• Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Hand-held device
• Hold a candle
• Hold a grudge
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold a mirror up to nature
• Hold a mirror up to society
• Hold a torch
• Hold all the aces

• Hold all the cards
• Hold at bay
• Hold back on
• Hold court
• Hold down a job
• Hold everything
• Hold fast
• Hold forth
• Hold hands
• Hold hard
• Hold it
• Hold it right there
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)

• Hold on
• Hold on a minute
• Hold on by your fingertips
• Hold on for dear life
• Hold on to your seat
• Hold out for
• Hold responsible
• Hold that thought
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Hold the floor
• Hold the fort
• Hold the front page
• Hold the line

• Hold the phone
• Hold the purse strings
• Hold the ring
• Hold up
• Hold up your head
• Hold very tight please
• Hold water
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Hold your breath
• Hold your drink
• Hold your head up high
• Hold your horses
• Hold your nose

• Hold your own
• Hold your peace
• Hold your tongue
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Please hold the line
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• To have and to hold
• You Really Got A Hold On Me (The Beatles and Smokey Robinson song)