Definitions from Wiktionary (hold the ring)
▸ verb: (sports, theater, obsolete) To maintain order among spectators encircling participants in a prizefight or a performance and keep them from coming too near the participants.
▸ verb: To be a spectator at a fight; (figuratively) to watch other people argue.
▸ verb: (chiefly British, idiomatic) To oversee a situation while attempting to remain uninvolved in it.
▸ verb: (sports) Of a prizefighter: to hold one's own during a fight; to continue winning a series of fights.
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▸ verb: (sports, theater, obsolete) To maintain order among spectators encircling participants in a prizefight or a performance and keep them from coming too near the participants.
▸ verb: To be a spectator at a fight; (figuratively) to watch other people argue.
▸ verb: (chiefly British, idiomatic) To oversee a situation while attempting to remain uninvolved in it.
▸ verb: (sports) Of a prizefighter: to hold one's own during a fight; to continue winning a series of fights.
Similar:
prize,
save by the bell,
outhold,
cover,
keep,
man up,
mark,
pin down,
keep wicket,
man-mark,
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