"hold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "That leaves only three of you to hold the fort."
- Fifty men could hold the fort for perhaps three days against a force of two hundred.
- The Americans were unable to hold the fort for more than a few days.
- Then, in fact, he was holding the fort, the last line of defense.
- And it won't be enough simply to hold the fort.
- "And will you hold the fort while I am gone."
- Gil and I will try to hold the fort without you.
- "Just holding the fort while the manager gets her hair done," he said.
- They would probably have put in somebody to hold the fort at the club.
- Now they just had to hold the fort, as it were, until competent help came.
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