Be held
Both terms in one sentence
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Nerf: In Kirby Super Star and its remake, Mirror's guard (which reflects projectiles) could be held indefinitely.
- When the guard returns, Bart claims he can't be held accountable without evidence — then sees himself in a mirror and realizes there's chocolate smeared over his face and hands.
Source: Eat the Evidence - The Iowa lists so hard to the right that the President, still on the deck, has to be held onto by one of his bodyguards to keep his wheelchair from rolling off the deck, and the torpedo gets so close that a second guard pulled out his pistol, ready to fire at it.
Source: Disaster Dominoes
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