YET: PHRASAL VERB: to hold on / to hold up

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to hold on to hold up

UPDATED: NOV 2021

Another crazy "Phrasal Verb"!
There are other meanings, but the above are very common.
(see video below)

to hold on (to wait)

Hold on a minute while I find your school records.

Hold on! This is the wrong bus.

Hold on! The ambulance will be here in a few minutes.
I'm smarter than Larry!
Hold on! Who says?

to hold up (to rob - verb)
holdup (robbery - noun)

Did you hear about the holdup of the gas station last night?

Have you ever been held up while traveling in Europe.

I got held up in traffic.
You know L.A. at rush hour!

Hey, what's the holdup? (Hey, what's the delay?)

HOLDUP from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid