Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor hold the fort
1. When Roberts stepped out to give a tour of the flood areas, he told the patrons to hold the fort.
2. It was surely to be supposed that, whatever the election result, Michael Howard would hold the fort for another year at least.
3. The head of the African Union mission to Darfur, Baba Gana Kingibe, has said it is willing to hold the fort in Darfur until the end of the year.
4. He decided at the last moment to leave his brother Shahbaz, also a politician, behind in the UK "to hold the fort" in case he were jailed or deported.
5. Not surprisingly, when the new Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, went on holiday the other day, Blunkett clearly thought that the nation would be safer if he stepped in to hold the fort. ‘I am helping out,‘ he announced, ‘while other good colleagues are taking a break.