hold up | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,informal)Towaitordelay.Synonyms:hold on,hang onHold upa minute. I want to check something.; (transitive)Toimpede;detain.I've got to get to work now. Why are youholdingmeup?What isholding uptraffic?2012May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, inBBC Sport:It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso washeld upby Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.(idiomatic)Todetainbythreatening, usually with aweapon, in order to commitrobbery.Synonym:stick upThe guy tried tohold upa bank.; (transitive)Tosupportorlift.Hold upthe table while I slide this underneath.(figurative)Tohighlight, as iflifting upfor display.His lecturesheld upNapoleon as an example of the phenomenon.held upfor public ridicule(idiomatic)Tofulfilor complete one's part of anagreement.I don't think he'sholding uphis end of the bargain.1962June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, inModern Railways, page405:In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back andheld upin places with a concrete retaining wall.1977,Agatha Christie, chapter 4, inAn Autobiography, part II, London:Collins,→ISBN:Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to beheld upin one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.; (intransitive)To persist.(idiomatic)Towithstand; tostand upto; tosurvive.hold upto scrutinyhold upto heavy use2023August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, inRAIL, number990, page34:The now infamous '108 woodlands' figure published by the Woodlands Trust, and later used by others to infer that HS2 would destroy 108 woodlands, does nothold upto scrutiny.Tokeep up; not tofall behind; not tolose ground.1697,Jeremy Collier,Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:For what will the World say; Why could not hehold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal(idiomatic)To maintaincomposuredespitehardship.how're youholdin up?(of a work)To continue to be seen asfavorable, to avoid seemingdated.Bride of Frankensteinis an old film, but itholds up.

Examples:

EN: And hold up the plate.
ES: Levante el plato.
EN: Will you hold up that plate!
ES: ¿No va a levantar el plato?
EN: If it is at all necessary to hold up present edition.
ES: "Por tanto retengan la actual edición..."
EN: Necessary to hold up present edition.
ES: "Por tanto retengan la actual edición..."
EN: Therefore necessary to hold up present edition until attorneys in Washington ..
ES: "Por tanto retengan la edición hasta que nuestros abogados de Washington..."
EN: To hear a woman, especially an attractive woman like yourself hold up to ridicule a less fortunate being. One who in spite of the grievous handicap of physical infirmities is still one of God's creatures.
ES: Oír a una mujer, sobre todo si es tan atractiva como usted, burlarse de un ser menos afortunado, que a pesar de sus deformidades físicas es también una criatura de Dios.
EN: Say, Murphy, hold up your first and third pages And stick on the wire.
ES: Murphy, reserva la primera y tercera páginas, y no cuelgues.
EN: "Driver stole car in full hold up.
ES: Inicien la búsqueda.
EN: I can't hold up the edition. How do we know we're gonna get anything?
ES: No puedo retener la edición más tiempo sin saber nada.
EN: You could hold up a whole army with this set up.
ES: Aquí podría esconderse todo un ejército.
EN: Please, shut up and hold up your head.
ES: Por favor, calla y mantén arriba la cabeza.
EN: - Yeah. He tried to hold up the place.
ES: Intentó asaltar el lugar.
EN: I got a hunch that if you go up there, you can pick up some of the gang that were mixed up at the stage coach hold up yesterday.
ES: Creo que si va hasta allí... podrá atrapar a alguno de la banda que intento asaltar la diligencia ayer. ¿Sí?
EN: You can hold up my pay until you see me... no beat it.
ES: Puedes ahorrarte mi salario hasta entonces. ¡Y ahora lárgate!
EN: Why not hold up, Sylvia?
ES: ¿Por qué no confiesas, Sylvia?

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