hold onto

English

Verb

hold onto

  1. To manage to keep something.
    Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan's constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see hold,‎ onto.
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