hold in
verb- To keep something to oneself; to prevent from escaping. · to hold in laughter, or one's emotions
- To restrain oneself. · He wanted to laugh and could hardly hold in.
- To keep (someone) in prison or jail.
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“I was already firmly convinced, Watson, that there were not three separate mysteries here, but one only, and that if I could read the Musgrave Ritual aright I should hold in my hand the clue which would lead me to the truth concerning both the butler Brunton and the maid Howells.
What about getting down to that paper you hold in your hand?"
I have, during those five-and-twenty years, spared no pains to understand the people of France and the interests which were confided to me; and now, when I see the fruition of my wishes almost within reach, the power I hold in my hands bursts and shatters me to atoms!”
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