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hold back

verb

a strap of the harness joining the breeching to the shaft, so that the horse can hold back the vehicle
something that restrains or hinders

Also, keep back .

But Switzerland, New Zealand, and Costa Rica cannot hold back the New Chaos.

He said, “Don’t let it all go now, just hold back ‘til we cover you.”

“I have to hold back my ammunition, hold my poker cards,” he says.

But I try to say things that are the truth, and I don't hold back, and sometimes it does get me into trouble.

And why would Romney hold back on the Benghazi business anyway?

In another moment they came in sight of something which made them hold back the dog, and which arrested their own footsteps.

Please don't think I'm not wantin' to trust you, because I hold back.

When they greeted her, Odin felt that he could hold back his curiosity no longer.

It was that combination which, perhaps even more than the words of her mother, made it impossible for him to hold back.

When she came in sight of their house it was harder than ever to hold back the tears of mortification, of hot resentment.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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