Held back love, meeting heartless female relative (2,3)
I believe the answer is:
on ice
'held back' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'love meeting heartless female relative' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'meeting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'heartless' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'female relative' becomes 'niece' (I've seen this in another clue).
'niece' with its middle taken out is 'nice'.
'o'+'nice'='ON ICE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for on ice that I've seen before include "Ready to skate" , "not to be furthered?" , "Temporarily suspended" , "Awaiting decision" , "Kept chilled" .)