Lexic.us

Definition of Hold the line

1. Verb. Hold the line on prices; keep the price of something constant.

2. Verb. Hold the phone line open. "Please hang on while I get your folder"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hold The Line

hold one's urine hold one's water hold open hold out hold outs hold over hold over someone's head hold serve hold someone's feet to the fire hold someone's hand

hold still for hold sway hold that thought hold the cards hold the fort hold the line (current term) hold the phone hold the purse strings hold the reins hold the ring

hold tight hold to account hold true hold up hold up one's end hold water hold with the hare and run with the hounds hold your fire holdable holdall

Literary usage of Hold the line

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Michigan in the War by Michigan Adjutant-General's Dept, John Robertson (1882)
"I th<;n withdrew my forces inside the main works, leaving 100 of 29th Michigan to strengthen the picket line and hold the line of rule-pits. ..."

2. They Shall Not Pass by Frank Herbert Simonds (1916)
"I MY TRIP TO VERDUN—GENERAL PETAIN FACE TO FACE THE MEN WHO hold the line—WHAT THEIR FACES TOLD OF THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF FRANCE MY ROAD to Verdun ran ..."

3. The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History by Charles Lanman (1871)
"... the advance force inside the main works, leaving one hundred men of the 29th Michigan to strengthen the picket line and hold the line of the rifle-pits. ..."

4. In College Days: Recent Varsity Verse by Joseph Le Roy Harrison (1901)
"RICHARD RAY KIRK TO THE MEN WHO hold the line A FOOTBALL TOAST Oh, the full-back bows to the cheering crowd, And the halves, and the quarter, too, ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"It had become painfully apparent to me that the morale of my army was not such as to justify an attempt to hold the line of the Big Black River. ..."

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