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English
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Pronunciation
Interjection
hold the phone
- (slang, idiomatic) stop; wait; whoa.
- Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.
Verb
hold the phone (third-person singular simple present holds the phone, present participle holding the phone, simple past and past participle held the phone)
- 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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