hold everything

idiom

: to stop what one is doing
Hold everything. We're not doing this right.

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Just don’t overcommit — full moons are chaotic, and your calendar can’t hold everything. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 3 Aug. 2025 Morgan plays this patriarchal figure who’s trying to hold everything together while also trying to create a business and a network of transportation that the world has never seen. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 July 2025 Sinuous lines hold everything together, a joyous stew of colors and floral patterns that sit inside and outside the blocky human and animal figures that could have dropped in from a comic book or a prehistoric cave painting. Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 5 June 2025 We’re expected to be the strong ones, the providers, the nurturers, the ones who hold everything together, even at the expense of our own well-being. Stephanie Long, Essence, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hold everything

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“Hold everything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hold%20everything. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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