hold it

She was so shocked that she spent most of the meeting just trying to hold it together until she could get back to her car, call her dad with the news and listen to him freak out.

I’d rather hold it close and say, “I’m supposed to be here,” accept that and feel empowered by it.

Try to hold it down fellas; you’re giving everybody whiplash.

“But the nature of power is such that those who hold it don’t necessarily exercise restraint.”

“I feel like everybody in the building kind of knows what they have, and I think they’re dead right on it. … They’ve got the right guys in the room that are going to hold it down.”