How to pronounce “hold the ring”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (sports, theater, obsolete) To maintain order among spectators encircling participants in a prizefight or a performance and keep them from coming too near the participants.
• To be a spectator at a fight; (figuratively) to watch other people argue.
• (chiefly British, idiomatic) To oversee a situation while attempting to remain uninvolved in it.
• (sports) Of a prizefighter: to hold one's own during a fight; to continue winning a series of fights.

Practice Nearby Words

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