📚hold the fort

✍🏾Meaning:
If you hold the fort, you look after a place or a business while the person who is normally in charge is away.

❕For example:

🔺Can you hold the fort while I run down to the bank?

🔺Your job will be to serve customers, and occasionally hold the fort if I have to go out.
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