the.com/holdover
Not your choice, not your taste, but somehow still your boss.
means Someone or something left in place from an earlier time or administration, continuing to occupy a role after the moment that justified it has passed.
from A straightforward compound of 'hold' plus 'over,' first used in American English in the 1800s for things literally held over from one period to the next — a crop stored past its season, a court case carried to the next term. The sense of a leftover official or appointee follows the same logic: whatever was supposed to end simply didn't, and stuck around instead.
- origin
- first meant a judge staying past their term
- politics
- describes officials who outlast the regime that hired them
- sports
- used for players kept despite a coaching change
- vibe
- technically still here, spiritually already gone