单词 | hold the fort |
释义 | hold the fort to take charge of something for somebody or deputize temporarily to cope with problems for somebody, or look after their work, while they are temporarily absent [with allusion to a signal sent by General Sherman during the American Civil War urging General Corse to hold the fort at Allatoona Pass until reinforcements arrived; the message, misquoted as hold the fort, for I am coming, was later incorporated in a popular gospel song]Main Entry: fort hold the fort see fort Main Entry: hold |
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