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The show must go on

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


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Notes

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

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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