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hold my milk

hold my milk is the alternative form of hold my beer.

Meaning of hold my beer

Phrase

hold my beer

  1. (humorous, imperative, originally) I am about to start a fight.
  2. (humorous, imperative) I am about to attempt something dangerous or unintelligent.
    • 98% of Americans say 'oh shit' before going into the ditch on a slippery road. The other 2% are from Minnesota and they say, ‘hold my beer and watch this.’2008, Kiven Hopper, One Hundred and One Dirty Nasty Disgusting Jokes You'll Love Reading, page 227
  3. (humorous, imperative) I will outperform someone who did something foolish by doing something even more foolish.
    • [[https://twitter.com/bpedaci/status/796205042802065409] BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.
      USA: Hold my beer].2016, Tom Phillips et al., “18 Tweets About How America Has Out-Brexited Brexit”, in BuzzFeed

Questions about hold my milk

What is hold my milk the alternative form of?
Hold my milk is the alternative form of hold my beer.

Words near hold my milk in the dictionary

  1. hold it down
  2. hold it in
  3. hold it together
  4. hold luggage
  5. hold my beer
  6. hold my milk
  7. hold off
  8. hold on
  9. hold on to your hat
  10. hold one's alcohol
  11. hold one's breath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold my milk (page history and authors); hold my beer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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