hold one's fire
(Redirected from hold your fire)
English
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Phrase
[edit]- Do not discharge a weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder; now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.
- (colloquial, idiomatic) Wait, don't retaliate, calm down, be quiet.
- Hold your fire and let me explain.