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Soheil1 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Hold fire

Hi.
Any difference between holding fire and sitting on your hands and treading water?

Thanks in advance
  

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Broadly speaking, here is how I think of these terms. holding fire not taking some action that you could or should sitting on your hands not doing anything; being lazy treading water waiting temporarily in some difficult context For details, please refer to an online idiom dictionary. Clive

— Clive

  • Broadly speaking, here is how I think of these terms.
  • holding fire not taking some action that you could or should sitting on your hands not doing anything; being lazy treading water waiting temporarily in some difficult context For details, please refer to an online idiom dictionary.
  • Clive
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Broadly speaking, here is how I think of these terms.

holding fire not taking some action that you could or should

sitting on your hands not doing anything; being lazy

treading water waiting temporarily in some dif
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