The show must go on

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

Notes

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.