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Keep going   /kip gˈoʊɪŋ/   Listen
Keep going

verb
1.
Continue uninterrupted.  Synonym: run on.  "The party kept going until 4 A.M."
2.
Suffice for a period between two points.  Synonyms: bridge over, tide over.
3.
Be a regular customer or client of.  Synonyms: patronage, patronise, patronize, support.  "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"






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"Keep going" Quotes from Famous Books



... as though surprised that I was still there. "You've come at a bad time," he said brusquely. "Summer—we are letting men go every day. But don't get discouraged. I worked four months for my first job, and I didn't come from McGraw either. Keep going the rounds." ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd

... sang so sweetly, that the children would have fallen asleep but for fear of losing any of the song. When the nightingale stopped they got up and wandered on. They did not know where they were going, but they thought it best to keep going on, because then they might come upon something or other. They were very sorry they forgot to ask the nightingale about the eagle's nest, but his music had put everything else out of their heads. They resolved, ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 3 • George MacDonald

... our dearest Won't think our generals clever, If we and this confounded War Keep going ...
— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross

... to the snowfield. It keeps melting the new snow, and this presses down into the old snow, so that the weight of the whole thing squeezes out the frozen snow into the valleys in the form of glaciers. And, as this process goes on year after year, the glacier would naturally keep going lower and lower down into the valley were it not for the fact that the point (or snout, as it is termed) of the glacier very frequently breaks off, and disappears into the torrent of ice-water ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman

... feat of balancing," he propounded. "A tight-rope stunt on a gilded rope. Failure on one side; debt on the other. Keep going like the devil to save ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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