What is the sense of "Hold off on the vote?" ?
What is the sense of "Hold off on the vote?" ?
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This means to hold someone back from getting what they want.
In the recent elections people wanted to hold others off from taking their seat in parliament.
In sports we could use hold off the other team from scoring a goal once we are one goal ahead. Or hold off an attack.
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