What is "hold your fire"

phr. 1 Do not discharge your weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder, now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile. 2 (context colloquial idiomatic English) Wait, don't retaliate, calm down, be quiet.

Hold Your Fire is the twelfth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on September 8, 1987. It was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and McClear Place in Toronto. Hold Your Fire was the last Rush studio album released outside Canada by PolyGram/ Mercury.

Rush continued to explore new songwriting territory in Hold Your Fire. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Open Secrets" and "Time Stand Still", appearing in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the latter.

The album was not as commercially successful as most of the band's releases of the 1980s, only peaking at #13 on the Billboard charts, the lowest debut for a Rush album since Hemispheres. However, it did eventually go gold.

Hold Your Fire is the second studio album of the hard rock band FireHouse. It was released in June 1992. The album spent thirty weeks in the Billboard 200 Top Albums chart peaking at # 23.

The album spawned several hit singles like " Reach for the Sky", "Sleeping With You" and another signature love ballad in the form of " When I Look Into Your Eyes". The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in the United States. Guitarist Bill Leverty expected the album to become certified Platinum in 2008. The album was later certified gold in the fall of 2009 with 831,000 copies sold in the US.