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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary
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hang fire
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Definition:to hold one's fire, usually in the figurative sense; to hold back; to restrain oneself from acting or speaking
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"Is in old, faded ink, and in the most beautiful hand." He hung fire again. "A woman's. She has been dead these twenty years. She sent me the pages in question before she died."
Henry James. The Turn of the Screw
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In the sweet old country where I come from, Nobody ever works, Yeah nothing gets done/We hang fire, we hang fire.
The Rolling Stones.
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The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker—the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler.Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn
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