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hold out on

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hold (something) out on (someone or something)
to keep news or something of value from someone or a group. What's going on? Are you holding something out on me? Don't hold out on the city council. They have ways of finding out everything.
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hold out on somebody
to refuse to give help or information to someone I discovered that she had been holding out on me all these years, not telling me the secret ingredient in her pies.
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