hold onto
Verb
Meaning
To manage to keep something.
Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan's constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, onto.
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Examples
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
Success is extremely ephemeral and very hard to hold onto.
When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth.