Hold all the aces: To be in a very advantageous position.
Hold the fort: To look after or take care of something while the responsible person is away.
Hold your horses: When someone tells you this, it means you are going too fast and need to slow down.
Hold your own: To compete or perform as well as others can.
Hold your tongue: To remain silent despite the urge to speak up.
Holier-than-thou: To believe to be holier-than-thou is to believe to be morally superior to others.
Honour among thieves: Even corrupt and bad people have a sense or code of honour/justice that they follow in their dealings with one another.
Holy smoke!: An expression of surprise.
Home and hearth: Warmth and security.
Hope against hope: To hope for something even when there is little hope or chance.
Hope in hell: When something does not stand a chance of being successful.
Hornet’s nest: To stir a hornet’s nest is to start something that causes a lot of disruption and disturbance.
Hot potato: A controversial issue that no one wants to deal with.
Hot under the collar: To be angry or disturbed.
House of cards: Something that is very weak and can easily collapse.
Humming and harring: To be humming and harring is to be unable to make up your mind about something.
Hunky Dory: When something is hunky dory, it is absolutely fine and satisfactory
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