To wait a minute; delay; hold everything •Often a request for respite and thinking space: body jerked back in a kind of W C Fields double take. ''Hold the phone,'' I said(1930s+)
Idioms and Phrases with hold the phone
hold the phone
Stop what one is doing, as in Hold the phone! There's no sense in continuing this argument. This expression is often put as an imperative, as in the example. [ ; second half of 1900s ]