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The show must go on
- 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.Advertisement
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