When ringing a large corporate company or the tax office, you go through all the menu's "press 2 if you have lost the will to live" malarkey and then get put on hold for so long, you end up in a trance, listening to either the hold music or 30 second beeps so when, finally, some muppet does answer your call, you forgot what you rang about.....
.........after 37 minutes of being on hold and being put into a hold trance "Hello, you're speaking to Malcolm, how can I help?" "errrrrm, errrmmmm, sorry I will have to ring back, I've forgot what I wanted to say".......*hangs up*
by Unbearable Muriel April 18, 2011
Common mental condition pertaining to a person who refuses to sell a stock on the stock exchange because he or she thinks it will go up in price. Usually a person suffering from hold-a-phobia has full control of the condition and can stop it at any time by simply selling the stock and taking the days gains. Hold-a-phobic tendencies develop usually when others around them are actively trading and taking the days gains; i.e. day-trading.
Doctor Franco diagnosed Francisco with a severe case of hold-a-phobia, because Francisco refuses to sell he 300 shares of Las Vegas Sands.
by MR. Dow Jones June 01, 2009
To shove an ENTIRE football into ones anus. WARNING: you won't want to play with the football after you do this.
by righteousconsumption October 16, 2014
The act of putting someone on hold for an aggravatingly and unnecessary long time. This can be used for punishment to people who continually call your place of work. Common amongst tech support.
Tech 1 - Dude who's been on hold for 30 minutes?
Tech 2 (whilst surfing internet for non-work related stuff) That jackass who keeps calling about him not being able to reach his porn site. I've got him on Hell Hold.
Tech 1 - Makes sense.
Tech 2 (whilst surfing internet for non-work related stuff) That jackass who keeps calling about him not being able to reach his porn site. I've got him on Hell Hold.
Tech 1 - Makes sense.
by binja April 24, 2008
According to the Times of London, in Andrew Ross Sorkin's book on the Lehman collapse, "Mr Paulson, the former head of Goldman Sachs...had said at the time that he was anxious that the Wall Street bank was rescued because “I don’t want to be left here holding Herman” — a lewd American reference.
by mitchw23 October 29, 2009
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