hold tack
English
editVerb
edithold tack (third-person singular simple present holds tack, present participle holding tack, simple past and past participle held tack)
- (idiomatic) To last or hold out.
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- But if this twig be made of wood
That will hold tack, I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of that old cur;
And th' other mungrel vermin, Ralph,
That brav'd us all in his behalf.