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Hold over   /hoʊld ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Hold over

verb
1.
Intimidate somebody (with a threat).
2.
Hold over goods to be sold for the next season.  Synonym: carry over.
3.
Keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time.
4.
Continue a term of office past the normal period of time.
5.
Hold back to a later time.  Synonyms: defer, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table.





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"Hold over" Quotes from Famous Books



... momentarily losing hold over himself. "If that mangy, wall-eyed slob comes slinking round my farm again, making friends with Chum, I'll sick the dog onto him; and have him run Iglehart all the way to his own shack! He's—! There! I didn't mean to cut ...
— His Dog • Albert Payson Terhune
... believes, would have continued with the reform forces. At any rate, he was available for any anti-machine movement that might have been started to organize the Senate. Hurd, like Burnett, will have his opportunity in 1911. Both Senators hold over. ...
— Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 • Franklin Hichborn
... Henry Craik, "The friendship had begun in literary guidance: it was strengthened by flattery: it lived on a cold and almost stern repression, fed by confidences as to literary schemes, and by occasional literary compliments: but it never came to have a real hold over ...
— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift
... what will prove by far the best of all constitutions. Elated by this he collected the leading men and begged them to help him, first by talking privately to his own friends, and thus little by little obtaining a hold over more men and banding them together for the work. When the time was ripe for the attempt, he bade thirty of the nobles go into the market-place early in the morning completely armed, in order to overawe the opposition. ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch
... town would keep me in countenance; but Mrs. Germaine would rummage out the history of the sums of money I have given this girl, and then would set those against her play-debts, and I should have no more hold over her; for, you know, if I should begin to reproach her with the one, she would recriminate. She is a devil of a hand at that work! Neither you nor any man on earth, except myself, can form any idea of the temper of ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth


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