hold on for dear life

To hold something very tightly, as if one's life depended on it. The hiker grabbed a root as she fell off the cliff, and had to hold on for dear life while she waited for the rescue crew. When the dentist motioned us back into the examination room, my daughter clutched her chair and held on for dear life.

词组	hold on for dear life
释义	hold on for dear life hold on for dear life To hold something very tightly, as if one's life depended on it. The hiker grabbed a root as she fell off the cliff, and had to hold on for dear life while she waited for the rescue crew. When the dentist motioned us back into the examination room, my daughter clutched her chair and held on for dear life. See also: dear, hold, life, on Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: grab (a)hold of (someone) hold with hold with (something) hold off doing hold off from (doing something) get hold of get hold of (one) get hold of somebody/something Will you hold(, please)? hold it
随便看	at the bottom of the food chain at the bottom of the heap at the bottom of the hour at the bottom of the ladder at the bottom/top of the pile/heap at the break of dawn at the buzzer at the chalkface at the coalface at the crack of dawn at the crossroads at the cutting edge at the cutting edge of something at the dot at the double at the drop of a hat at the eleventh hour at the end of nowhere at the end of (one's) fingertips at the end of (one's) rope at the end of (one's) tether at the end of rope at the end of the day at the end of the line at the end of the rainbow