Talk:hold accountable

hold accountable
Delete - hold (#7 To maintain, to consider) + accountable. ---&gt; Tooironic 22:57, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. "I held him guilty and now I hold him innocent". Equinox ◑ 22:58, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think sense 7 captured the nature of this kind of "holding". Sense 7 seems to relate to statements. I have added a new sense which is intended to include "hold someone accountable/responsible/liable" and "hold someone to something (eg, a promise)". It should apply to hold responsible, below, too. DCDuring TALK 23:13, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Keep - "hold accountable" is a phrase/idiom, and if you're defining "hold" here as meaning "maintain," we don't say "hold opinion" or "hold composure." 71.66.97.228 19:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? There are thousands of hits on Google Books for both "hold opinion" and "hold composure". As DCDuring pointed out above, "hold" collocates with a large number of nouns - accountable, responsible, liable, etc. There is nothing about "hold accountable" that is idiomatic. ---&gt; Tooironic 01:18, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, per evidence. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:28, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. · 05:06, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. DAVilla 05:53, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 22:24, 18 July 2011 (UTC)