Communication
hold a room
keep an audience interested
To keep an audience interested and attentive while you are speaking or performing.
Hear it in real life
Was the speaker good?
Definitely. He really knew how to hold a room.
She can hold a room even when she is talking about a very technical subject.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: hold the audience in a room
Say: hold a room
In this idiom, "hold a room" means hold the attention of everyone in it.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
hold a room; hold the room's attention
Your turn: say it out loud
She can hold a room even when she is talking about a very technical subject.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
hold a room
keep an audience interested
“She can hold a room even when she is talking about a very technical subject.”
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