Quiz: "water" or "oil"?
14.07.2010
The correct answer is: water
Your argument doesn't hold ___. It's totally wrong and unreasonable!
If an argument does not hold water, it cannot be true or it is not reasonable.
If you strongly believe that somebody is making a bad argument in favour or against something, you can tell that person that the argument does not hold water. We also say that an excuse, a story or a claim doesn't hold water.
"His claim that he was ill just doesn't hold water."
not hold water = nicht stichhaltig sein
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- Robert Gibson"Could his humour ever be as successful in Germany as it is in Britain?"
