The show must go on

1. People are counting on us to do this, and we must not disappoint them.

This notion is supposed to be a fundamental principle of entertainers.

Idioms and Phrases

The proceedings must continue, no matter what unfortunate event has occurred, as in The chairman died yesterday but the show must go on. This expression is a theatrical credo dating from the 1800s and was transferred to other situations in the first half of the 1900s.