It's taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet and it is used when we see in a passage from a play, poem, scripture or work of literature ourselves.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This is a made-up word meaning strong or durable. You can see where they got the word from "stand" meaning to hold fast.
Go look in the mirror and make some faces. See how your mouth screws up? To make a mouth is to make a face, usually an unhappy one.
The word that can be put in front of "draw," "stand," and "hold out" to make compound words is "out." This creates the compound words "draw out," "stand out," and "hold out," where "out" acts as a particle that adds a specific meaning or context to the base verbs.
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The meaning of "stuck up" is can't move in one place.
This phrase, often associated with Shakespeare's play "Hamlet," suggests the idea of art reflecting reality and truth. By holding the mirror up to nature, one can reveal and examine the complexities and contradictions of human existence. It emphasizes the power of art to illuminate and provoke thought about the world around us.
hold them up to a mirror and copy what you see
The Gallant Men - 1962 To Hold Up a Mirror 1-14 was released on: USA: 5 January 1963
Hold a cold mirror close to your mouth, slowly blow your breath across the mirror. Where the mirror fogs up, that is the moisture in your breath condensing on the mirror.
When you hold a mirror in steam, the mirror's surface becomes fogged up due to the condensation of water vapor. This occurs because the steam contains water droplets that stick to the mirror's cooler surface, creating a thin layer of liquid that obstructs reflection.
Words appear different when held up to a mirror because the mirror reflects images as a mirror image, causing the text to appear backwards. This occurs because the mirror reverses the direction of the light that bounces off the text before it reaches our eyes.
pull up to face your garage door hold the mirror button in and the garage door opener in until the red light on the mirror turns green. viola
pull up to face your garage door hold the mirror button in and the garage door opener in until the red light on the mirror turns green. viola
Hamlet declares that the artistic purpose of playing… ‘both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.’
I don't see the difference as long as you are talking about lifting an object physically higher from the floor or ground. But 'hold up' can have the meaning of robbing or robbery. "I'll hold up the first person who comes out of the bank!" a robber might say. Or, "This is a hold up!"
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detain, hold up, postpone, defer,