hold fire

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To wait for an opportunity to shoot (with a firearm) at something or someone. intransitive
  2. To delay taking action. intransitive
    — I have seen so much really credible evidence that the situation did not devolve the way we're being told it did. And then, another body of credible evidence that it was very different from what we're being told it is that I'm holding fire until I see the Warren Commission report on the assissination of JFK.

词形变化

holds fire present,singular,third-person holding fire participle,present held fire participle,past held fire past
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