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hold water

VERB
  1. resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
    This theory won't hold water
    Her shoes won't hold up

How To Use hold water In A Sentence

  • They made a recommendation to limit household water use.
  • From China; a high-fired, superfine clay; sometimes mixed with quartz or metal; very fragile, but can hold water.
  • To go home from the phrase, ‘civil rts’ to incorp the entirety of the bill of rts doesnt hold water either. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Justice Stevens Sees Himself as a “Judicial Conservative”
  • A third of all household water is flushed down the toilet, so control the amount of water you use by putting a plastic bottle or ‘hippo’ in your cistern.
  • If your soil can't hold water, hauling in clay is an option, though an expensive one. How to Build Your Own Bass Pond
  • Yet to use a word I hate (standing for a philosophy that leaves me cold), when one "deconstructs" what Posner is saying, when one "unpacks" it (to use another jargonistic word), it may not hold water, or may at least be highly debatable. The Preternaturally Prolific Posner on Plagiarism
  • His explanation of where the money came from just doesn't hold water.
  • A direct solar water heating system circulates household water through collectors and is not appropriate in climates in which freezing temperatures occur.
  • Glass flower vases, cruets, or carafes used to hold water, wine, oil or other liquids may develop stains in the bottom when allowed to set for a long time.
  • Your views sound strange and It'seems that they don't hold water.
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