hold your fire love

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  • phrase Do not discharge your weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder, now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.
  • phrase colloquial, idiomatic Wait, don't retaliate, calm down, be quiet.

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