a friendly way of accepting an invitation or offer for a later date
to continue having a particular belief or standard
to do what you have promised or decided
to make someone continue to behave according to a particular belief or standard
to make someone do what they have promised or decided
Anyone appointed to this position should be held to the highest ethical standards.
But most people hold on to them.
I want to say to people you can hold on to your happiness.
People hold on to what they have so tightly it slips through their fingers.
People often hold on to pain from the relationship; that way you're just messing your own kids up.
People should hold on to their tickets.
Perhaps the voters thought we should be holding on to these people because they're good to look at.
She said: 'Young people should hold on to their dreams.
She still holds to the view that violence is never justified.
The tax system encourages people to hold on to what they have.
The western democracies held to their policy of non-intervention.
They didn’t hold me to a month’s notice.
What is of value on reading this book is that people hold on to what is useful for them as individuals.
Why do some people hold on to their accents all their lives while others drop them overnight?
With values rising, people are holding on to pictures for longer.
You want to hold on to the good people you already have - if you can.
holds to
holding to
held to
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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