Behind and Held up

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Behind adjective - Not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time.

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Held up and behind are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Held up" instead an adjective "Behind".

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Behind and held up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Behind" instead an adjective phrase "Held up".

Cool Ship: Tiger Shark's Bond villain-esque submarine Crazy-Prepared: Dick has a tazer hidden in the finger of his glove for when he gets held up from behind.

Source: Comic Book / Batman The Black Mirror
Full House is now held up as a good example of what happens when fan reaction is taken too far by people behind the scenes.

Source: Franchise Original Sin / Live-Action TV
Everyone on his team files into the restaurant behind him, thus getting held up.

Source: Film / Race to Witch Mountain

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