hold one's horses
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To be patient; to wait.
- 2007, "Force is last resort in Iranian crisis ↗," forbes.com/Thomson Financial News, 17 Sep. (retrieved 5 Oct. 2008):
- "I would ask everybody to hold their horses until we go through the process," ElBaradei said.
- 2007, "Force is last resort in Iranian crisis ↗," forbes.com/Thomson Financial News, 17 Sep. (retrieved 5 Oct. 2008):
- hold one's water; See also Thesaurus:wait
- French: minute, papillon just a minute, butterfly
- Russian: придержи́ коне́й
- Portuguese: aguentar os cavalos to hold the horses
- Spanish: apaciguar sus aguas to calm one's waters
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