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To keep; to store something for someone.
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Hold on to my umbrella while I ride the roller coaster.
Submitted on September 02, 2012
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- at the wheel
- big cheese
- bite one's tongue
- blaze a trail
- call it quits
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- child's play
- dead on
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- in black and white
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- lower the boom
- middle ground
- morning, noon and night
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- nugget of truth
- of late
- off and on
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