hold fire
verb1
To wait for an opportunity to shoot (with a firearm) at something or someone.
2
Imperative Do not fire.
- Hold fire!
- Hold your fire!
3
To delay taking action.
- I have seen so much really credible evidence that the situation did not devolve the way we're being told it did. And then, another body of credible evidence that it was very different from what we're being told it is that I'm holding fire until I see the Warren Commission report on the assissination of JFK.2025 September 23, Lawrence Wilkerson, Nima R Alkhorshid's Dialogue Works, YouTube: