hold water
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可能源自耶利米书 2:13的詹姆士王译本：For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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hold water (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 holds water，現在分詞 holding water，一般過去時及過去分詞 held water)
- (习语) 站得住脚，说得通
- 2017 8月 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, 出自 The Onion AV Club[1]:
- At the parlay, Tyrion also tries to claim Tywin’s murder was self-defense, which holds some water, and despite Jaime’s anger, I suspect he can see it from that side.
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- 1888, Horatio Alger, The Errand Boy, ch. 35:
- "Young man," he said, "upon this point I can only say that your story is grossly improbable. It won't hold water."