Examples:

• The debate about ‘large’ and ‘small’ countries does not hold water.
• Therefore, this argument also does not hold water.
• The rapporteur's argument does not hold water.
• Those arguments did not hold water.
• I think that the reasons that Mr Poettering has just given do not hold water.
• Thirdly, the comparison with the situation in the United States does not hold water.
• This argument does not hold water.
• The comparison with the United States, it must be said, simply does not hold water.
• The argument that the trade preferences promote prosperity and combat radicalism therefore does not hold water.
• Your arguments, Commissioner, do not hold water, and I find it regrettable that you have presumed to adduce them.