Hold the phone.

Hold the phone.
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.

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Rachel: Do you wish to speak to Mr. Jones or Mr. Franklin? Henry: Jones. Rachel: Thank you. Hold the line, please.

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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.

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Hold the phone. I just had another idea.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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