hold up something/someone
(GIVE EXAMPLE)Definition
› to offer something or someone as an example: Her parents always held her sister up to her as the kind of person she should be.
(Definition of hold up something/someone (GIVE EXAMPLE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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hold the fort idiom
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hold together (something) phrasal verb
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hold up phrasal verb CONTINUE
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hold up someone/something phrasal verb DELAY
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hold up someone/something phrasal verb STEAL
- hold up something/someone phrasal verb GIVE EXAMPLE
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hold v BELIEVE
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hold v CAUSE TO HAPPEN
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hold v CONTAIN/SUPPORT
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hold v CONTINUE
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hold v CONTROL
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