hold water

Meaning

Verb

To withstand scrutiny or criticism; to be valid.

Origin

Possibly from the King James Version of Jeremiah 2:13: “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”

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