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Hold the fort (British, American & Australian) also hold down the fort (American): to be left in charge of a situation or place while someone is away. Someone had to stay at home and hold the fort while my mother was out. (Cambridge Idiom Dictionary) According to the Phrase Finder: The correct phrase is "hold the fort" - there's no "down".
2. The phrase "not hold with" isn't an idiom or a set phrase. You've just encountered a somewhat obsolete meaning of the word "hold", meaning "agree" or "associate myself with". Look up hold in your favorite dictionary, the 2nd or 3rd sense, I'm sure. It will also provide the full etymology (or at least what's known), but it's a sensible ...
To "speak one's piece" means to say something prepared, as in an opinion or statement... so telling people to "forever hold their piece" is saying "don't ever say what you came here to say." A. Hold your peace: Be silent, and be at peace. B. Hold your piece: Shut up. Share.
@Harshit there's a limited set of possibilities: 1) you misheard them, or misunderstood somehow, 2) they genuinely (and mistakenly) believe that "hold the forth" is an English expression or 3) It was a trick question, to which the answer is "'Hold the forth' is not an English expression.". Those are the only options.
It’s difficult to track down the origin of this expression, but according the The Phrase Finder: “Cut” has been used for flatulence since the 1800s, as testified by several sources and continued today in the mainly American expression, “To cut a fart”. Rude Boy says cheese was introduced to the mix in the late 1960s, citing the ...
The origin of this hand gesture is discussed, for example, in Wikipedia. It is not fully clear, but probably comes from pre-Christian times, and thus does not have a relation to the Christian symbol of the cross.
Reach me down that suit [etc.]. and vice versa. The possibility of such synonymous use of the verbal phrases explains the "occasional" (OED) noun, and "now rare" (OED) adjectival, uses of 'hand-me-down' in the sense of "ready-made" more usually associated with 'reach-me-down'. Equally, that possibility of synonymy explains the opposite, wherein ...
3. Meaning. Win easily, with little effort. Origin. Jockeys need to keep a tight rein in order to encourage their horse to run. Anyone who is so far ahead that he can afford to slacken off and still win he can drop his hands and loosen the reins - hence winning 'hands down'. This is recorded from the mid 19th century.
4. It appears the use of down is taken from local dialects and means; to. down the shore,that is, to the shore. ” In New Jersey, you invariably go “down the shore.”. Baltimore natives, meanwhile, say they’re going “down the ocean” — but in Baltimorese (make that Bawlmerese), the phrase sounds more like “downy eaushin.”.
A hot potato is hot! Pick one up with your bare hands and see how long you can hold it. The children's game hot potato (players pass an object quickly and the player with the potato when time expires is the loser) has probably helped to keep the idea closely associated with potatoes instead of, say, coffee cups or bees.