The boy must have held his fire to the very last moment.
You have one year during which I will hold my fire.
He has held his fire when asked about the President's wife.
She found herself thinking, I have held my fire too long and lost the moment of action.
"People should hold their fire until they have a better sense of what we're doing."
As a result, she held her fire in this period.
It took me a moment to see why he had held his fire.
He turned, and called out to the officers to hold their fire.
"To be able to hold fire in a difficult situation requires a lot of training."
I could have ordered my men to hold their fire.
