hold against

phrasal verb

held against; holding against; holds against

: to use (something) as a reason to have a bad opinion of (someone)

He lied to her once, and she still holds it against him.

Nobody is going to hold it against you if you don't come.

Examples of hold against in a Sentence

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In June, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security worked with Mexican authorities to rescue 13 migrants who were being held against their will. —

Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 Losing Gabriel Landeskog and Valeri Nichushkin for lengthy periods would be difficult for any team to deal with and that shouldn’t be held against management. —

Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024 The Mexican city's municipal police department said Tuesday that officers had been called to reports that the men were being held against their will. —

Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 The decision followed reports that two USDA inspectors were held against their will amid police protests in Michoacán, a state in south-central Mexico that produces the majority of the country’s avocados. —

Erin Caldwell, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hold against