Idiom
hold the phone
Meaning
stop; wait; whoa.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Hold the phone — did you say free tickets?”
“She was about to sign the contract when her lawyer said, "Hold the phone, there's a hidden clause."”
“Hold the phone, he thought, staring at the photograph: the man in the background was supposed to have died twenty years ago.”
Examples
simple
“Hold the phone — did you say free tickets?”
contextual
“She was about to sign the contract when her lawyer said, "Hold the phone, there's a hidden clause."”
complex
“Hold the phone, he thought, staring at the photograph: the man in the background was supposed to have died twenty years ago.”
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