hold it

phrase

: to go no further : to stop

Hold it right there. Where do you think you're going?

Examples of hold it in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

His joke hints at the other purpose of the address, which is to examine the health of the ecosystem in which comedians seek their livelihood and hold it to a higher standard. — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 30 July 2026

The people who hold it can spend their days doing radically different work, based on very different ideas about how a company shapes its future. — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Grab a single strand of your hair and hold it between your fingers. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 July 2026

Unfamiliar bathrooms trigger a stress response that leads people to hold it in, which only compounds the problem. — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 13 July 2026

Rhymes for hold it

• acquit
• admit
• armpit
• backlit
• befit
• cockpit
• commit
• dalit
• dendrite
• emit
• illite
• misfit