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Hold One’s Own (To)

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To maintain one’s own opinion, position, way, etc. Maintain means to hold with the hand. (Latin, manus teneo.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Hold Forth (To)
Hold Hard
Hold In (To)
Hold Off!
Hold On
Hold Out
Hold Water (To)
Hold One Guilty (To)
Hold One in Hand (To)
Hold One’s Own (To)
Hold the Fort
Holdfast
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Hole and Corner (business)
Holiday Speeches
Holipher nes
Holland
Hollow
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