hold over
/ˌhoʊld ˈoʊ̯.vɚ/ verbo- (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period. · These crisps should hold me over until supper.
- To save, delay. · We will have to hold over these files until tomorrow.
- To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date. · We should hold over this report until the new department lead comes in.
- To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone). · He's holding those allegations over my head.
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They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying, “What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later,” and that comforted them a great deal.
To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech,—which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free,—so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the point of yielding when I knew you, has no longer any hold over me; and this—this is my fortune—not chimerical, but actual.
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