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hold everything

Idioms  
  1. Also, hold it. Stop, wait. These expressions are usually used in the imperative, as in Hold everything, we can't unload the truck yet, or Hold it, you've gone far enough. [First half of 1900s]


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A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.

From Salon

Two thin glass plates hold everything needed to study nature's invisible glue.

From Science Daily

That the word would expand to hold everything my system was processing.

From Literature

There’s a sense of containment to him, like he’s trying to hold everything inside.

From New York Times

“Which is that the image is not a setting — it has to hold everything the novel is about. So that’s how I work with the image. I don’t work with symbols. No ideas but in things. They are physical objects.”

From Los Angeles Times