Meaning of hold one's own | Babel Free

Definitions

To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“At any rate, he was like John Bull in one respect: he was sturdy and square, and fit to hold his own with any man.”

“At the receptions […] Antonia could hold her own in a discussion with two or three men at a time.”

“If it came to blows, the younger man could not hope to hold his own with the huge policeman.”

“In his view, this eminent locomotive engineer had very decided opinions of his own, and was not afraid of putting them into practice; but a weakness lay in the fact that there was no one on his staff in a position sufficiently strong to hold his own with Stroudley in argument.”

“Charlie: Are you a good pilot? Maverick: I can hold my own.”

“But Ford, and Chrysler continued to hold their own against the latest competition from the Japanese.”

CEFR level