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Phrase(s): hold someone or something together
to keep a group of people or things together. • She worked at two jobs in order to hold her family together. • Our club was failing despite our efforts to hold it together., Phrase(s): hold something together
to keep the parts of an object together. • Hold this broken vase together until I get back with the glue. • What can I use to hold this together?, Phrase(s): hold oneself together
Fig. to maintain one’s calmness or sanity. • I don’t know if I can hold myself together through another horrible day like this one. • I don’t know how she held herself together through all her troubles., Phrase(s): hold together
[for something] to keep from falling apart. • Don’t run the engine too fast because it won’t hold together. • Do you think that this book will hold together much longer?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs