hold onto

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Verb

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hold onto (third-person singular simple present holds onto, present participle holding onto, simple past and past participle held 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 figuratively or idiomatically: see hold,‎ onto.