hold yew hard

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. Wait for a moment. Be patient. Norfolk,idiomatic,imperative
    — "Hold yew hard," said old Joe. "Will a hunnerd pounds hurt ye for the passage? We might make that a feeshin' in the time."

词源

References holding a horse's reins to keep it still. In this phrase, yew is an eye dialect spelling of you.
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