Hi my englishforums friends,
I'm currently making a subtitles to my favourite movie in order to improve my english
and I came across there to very interresting idiom:"hold the fort". It means take someones
duty or responsibility in his absence...
That particular person said
Hold down the fort for an hour.
I've just got to take care of some stuff.
Anyway, please what is the difference between just hold the fort and hold down the fort?? I don't feel
the difference between these two phrases, but maybe there is something...I don't know.
thank you in advance.
With regards
JCD