Hold the phone

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Hold the phone.

1. and Hold the wire(, please).; Hold, please.; Hold the line(, please).; Hold the phone(, please).; Please hold. Fig. Please wait on the telephone and do not hang up. (A phrase in use before telephone "hold" circuitry was in wide use.) Bill: Hold the wire, please. (Turning to Tom) Tom, the phone's for you. Tom: Be right there. Rachel: Do you wish to speak to Mr. Jones or Mr. Franklin? Henry: Jones. Rachel: Thank you. Hold the line, please. Sue: Good afternoon, Acme Motors, hold please. Bill (hanging up): That makes me so mad!

2. Fig. Wait just a minute.; Don't rush into something. Hold the phone! Let's think about it a little longer. Hold the phone. I just had another idea.

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The governor'spokesman Aaron McLear later clarified that by "swift action", the governor meant he would ask his wife not to hold the phone while driving. TERMINATE HER; Arnie's vow after wife breaks law by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) How can it be safer to use two hands to text-message while driving when it is against the law to use one hand to hold the phone while driving? PUBLIC FORUM: Q&A by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) A hands-free kit consisting of a wire and an earpiece is legal if you do not have to hold the phone at any point. Safety is often a close call by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			hold no brief for hold nose hold of hold off hold off doing hold on hold on for dear life Hold on! hold oneself together hold onto hold out hold out an olive branch hold out on hold out the olive branch hold over hold own hold peace hold promise hold still hold still for hold sway hold terror for hold the fort hold the key hold the line Hold the phone hold the purse strings hold tight hold to hold to ransom hold together hold tongue hold true hold up hold up as an example hold up to hold up to ridicule hold up to scorn hold water hold with Hold your horses! Hold your tongue! holding hole hole in one hole in the wall hole up hole-and-corner holiday holier-than-thou holler			hold sway hold sway over hold temper hold terror for Hold That Tiger hold the advantage hold the attention hold the bag hold the bag hold the bag hold the bag hold the bag hold the chair hold the fort hold the fort hold the fort hold the fort hold the fort hold the fort hold the interest of hold the key hold the line hold the line hold the line hold the line hold the line hold the line Hold the Line (Toto song) Hold the Market hold the opinion Hold the phone hold the purse strings hold the reins hold the whip hand Hold the wire hold tight hold tight hold tight Hold time hold to hold to hold to hold to hold to hold to hold to bail hold to bail hold to bail hold to bail hold to bail hold to blame Hold To Maturity hold to ransom hold to ransom hold to ransom hold to ransom hold to service hold to service hold to service hold to service Hold to the Rod

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