hold it!
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› used to tell someone to wait or stop doing something: Hold it! I haven't got my coat on yet. Hold it! What are you saying?Expressions telling people to stop doing something
(Definition of hold it! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- age noun (TIME SPENT ALIVE)
- break it up! idiom
- cool it idiom
- cut verb (STOP)
- give it a rest idiom
- hold everything! idiom
- hold your horses idiom
- just a minute/moment/second idiom
- keep your nose out of sth idiom
- knock it off idiom
- leave it out! idiom
- leave off! phrasal verb
- pack sth in phrasal verb
- that's it idiom
- that's that idiom
- time noun (TIME AVAILABLE)
- timeout exclamation, noun
- wait for it idiom
- whoa exclamation
- zip it idiom
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