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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



... Ruth Tolliver: If you was to live a thousand years, and the gent with the smile was to keep going for two thousand, it'd never come about that he ...
— Ronicky Doone • Max Brand

... driver to keep going. What did she want to do? Well, she didn't know. One had to marry somebody, after all the machinery had been put in motion. Perhaps she might as well scratch Brisbane as anybody else; for scratch she would, if she didn't get what ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

... possible he might thus seek to get into their good graces and revenge himself at the same time. Mr. Heatherbloom turned from dark byway to dark byway. He knew there was a possibility that he might keep going throughout the night without being taken; but what would he attain by so doing, how would that ...
— A Man and His Money • Frederic Stewart Isham

... Dignity and sweetness, you know—those are what I admire in a woman. But not too much of the goddess or of the angel either. I shouldn't want always to have to load up with a pedestal when we shifted camp, and the only shrine I'd keep going for her would be in my heart. It's a Mate I'm wanting, as well as an Ideal.... Now ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... him—'Dolph, her own dog. They were ungrateful. . . . Had not everything gone right so long as they had obeyed her? While now—They would find out, of course. Even Arthur Miles would begin to feel hungry after a while, and then—'Dolph might keep going for a time on rabbits, though as a circus-dog he was not ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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