In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

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and holding the pen in the same hand in the close-up,

那么，在近距离拍摄的时候也应该是用右手拿笔，

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However, experiments by users revealed that holding magnets close to the disks would erase their recordings.

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When Jeanne Manford learned that her son Morty had been badly beaten up at a gay rights demonstration, nobody would have faulted her for bringing him home, holding him close, just focusing on her child.

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