hold back
verb- To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power. · Don't hold back. Hit it as hard as you can.
- To contain; stop. · The dam can't hold back that much water.· I was swallowing hard to hold back the tears.
- To delay the progress of, especially in school. · He's a year older than his classmates, because he was held back in second grade.
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Ask me what you like, and there is nothing which I shall hold back.
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