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Originally posted by Catalina
<font color="purple">pls look at this sentence;</font id="purple">
The students put the books on hold for two days.
<font color="purple">What does it mean from “put something on hold” ?</font id="purple">
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catalina
Put something on hold is a colloquial expression. I think it comes from the telephone where a caller may be
put on hold until the person they want to speak to is free.
So it means something like:
to make people wait or
stop doing something for a while.
An example might be: "I know we arranged to meet tomorrow but I'm afraid I will have to
put you on hold until next week."
The sentence you ask about seems a little unusual (unless it means the students stopped studying for a while - they put the books 'on hold').
Michael