Hold-the-ring Definition

verb

(UK, idiomatic) To oversee a situation while attempting to remain uninvolved in it.

Police held the ring during the protests.
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Origin of Hold-the-ring

  • 1828 (October), The Sporting Magazine, page 448:

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