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hold water
verb as in cohere
verb as in prove out
verb as in wash
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UT claims it could simply refund Fisher the $100 and make the case moot—a position some legal experts believe could hold water.
They have requisitioned every utensil that will hold water in the village.
The longer he played it around, the more he began to wonder whether his notion mightn't hold water after all.
Other birds, said Solomon, omitted to line their nests with mud, and as a result they did not hold water.
You've got a good little seller, all right, but that guaranty don't hold water any more than the petticoat contains silk.
This, however, will not do on a heavy clay subsoil, for it would form a basin to hold water and injure the tree.
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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hold water, such as: be acceptable, bear scrutiny, be plausible, be reasonable, carry weight, and convince.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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