Brooks and Holds

Brooks

Brooks noun - United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963).

Holds is an antonym for brooks.

Nearby Words: brook, brooke

Holds

Definitions of Brooks not found.

Brooks is an antonym for holds.

Both words in one sentence

  • Bait and Switch Brooks: [holds his hand out] Do you mind?
  • Hostage Situation Similarly subverted for comic effect in Mel Brooks' movie Blazing Saddles: When the entire town of Rock Ridge draws its guns on Bart, he draws his own gun, holds it to his head, and plays both the hostage and the hostage-taker using two different voices.
  • "Last Supper" Steal They pose for a second exactly as in the painting, and Brooks holds up a plate over Christ's head as the halo.
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