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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

"Holding up"

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In the sentence "holding up the barricade(s)".....would "holding up" mean..."maintaining in place"?
  

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Please supply the complete sentence at least.
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"Forever and ever holding up the barricades"
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That didn't help much. I would expect 'holding the barricades' (no 'up') but I suppose that the meaning is 'successfully defending the barricades'.
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