hold the phone

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hold the phone

1. (slang, idiomatic) stop; wait; whoa.

   Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.

hold the phone (third-person singular simple present holds the phone, present participle holding the phone, simple past and past participle held the phone)

1. To hold; to wait for someone at the other end of a telephone connection.

   They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.

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