hold it
hold everything
To stop something one is doing or getting ready to do. Usually used as a command.
The pilot was starting to take off, when the control tower ordered "Hold it!"
hold the line
To keep a situation or trouble from getting worse; hold steady; prevent a setback or loss.
The mayor held the line on taxes.
The company held the line on employment.
hole in one
A shot in golf that is hit from the tee and goes right into the cup.
Many golfers play for years before they get a hole in one.
hole up
hole in
To take refuge or shelter; put up; lodge.
After a day's motoring, Harry found a room for rent and holed up for the night.
The thief holed up at an abandoned farm.
"Let's hole in," said Father as we came to a motel that looked good.
hole-in-the-wall
hole in the wall
A small place to live, stay in, or work in; a small, hidden, or inferior place.
The jewelry store occupied a tiny hole-in-the-wall.
When Mr. and Mrs. Green were first married, they lived in a little hole-in-fhe-wall in a cheap apartment building.
A tunnel.
Let's get through this hole in the wall, then we'll change seats.
home on
home in on
To move toward a certain place by following a signal or marker.
The airplane homed in on the radio beacon.
The ship homed on the lights of New York harbor.
hook, line and sinker
Without question or doubt; completely.
Johnny was so easily fooled that he fell for Joe's story, hook, line and sinker.
Mary was such a romantic girl that she swallowed the story Alice told her about her date, hook, line and sinker.
Bobby trusted Jim so he was taken in by his hard-luck story hook, line and sinker.
hope against hope
To try to hope when things look black; hold to hope in bad trouble.
The mother continued to hope against hope although the plane was hours late.
Jane hoped against hope that Joe would call her.