hold_water
英语
词源
可能源自耶利米书 2:13的詹姆士王译本：For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
发音
（澳洲）音频
动词
hold water（第三人称单数简单现在时 holds water，现在分词 holding water，一般过去时及过去分词 held water）
- (习语) 站得住脚，说得通
- 2017年8月13日，Brandon Nowalk，“Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”，出自 The Onion AV Club[1]:
- At the parlay, Tyrion also tries to claim Tywin’s murder was self-defense, which holds some water, and despite Jaime’s anger, I suspect he can see it from that side.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- 1888, Horatio Alger, The Errand Boy, ch. 35:
- "Young man," he said, "upon this point I can only say that your story is grossly improbable. It won't hold water."
参见
- hold up
- hold one's water
- watertight
异序词
- hotelward
