hold water

Etymology
Possibly from the of Jeremiah 2:13: “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”

Verb

 * 1)  To withstand scrutiny or criticism; to be valid.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: pitää vettä, kestää tarkastelua, olla vedenpitävä
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,
 * Italian: reggere un ipotesi
 * Russian: выде́рживать критику
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: држати воду
 * Latin: držati vodu