hold over
• postpone something.
• "the usual family gathering was held over until late January"
Similar:
postpone,
put off,
put back,
delay,
defer,
adjourn,
suspend,
shelve,
hold in abeyance,
put over,
table,
take a rain check on,
put on ice,
put on the back burner,
put in cold storage,
mothball,
remit,
respite,
Opposite:
bring forward,
• use a piece of information to threaten or intimidate someone.
• "I resented him holding the secret over me"
holdover
noun
• a person or thing surviving from an earlier time, especially someone surviving in office.
• "Young is the only holdover from the 2002 team"
on hold
• waiting to be connected while making a phone call.
• "‘I'll just see if he's free,’ Rachel said, and put me on hold"
