carry on
/ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/ verb- To continue or proceed as before. · I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence.
- To continue, maintain or pursue (an activity or enterprise). · to carry on commerce in a market· Carry on the good work.
- To persist, persevere. · Near-synonyms: keep on, hang in, hang on, keep on keeping on· keep calm and carry on
- To talk continuously or prolongedly (about something), often in an excessively excited way. · Near-synonym: go on· He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium.
- To act or behave; especially, to misbehave so as to attract attention; to make a fuss; to behave ostentatiously. · I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public!· I could hear some protestors hollering, but I wasn't close enough to make out what was happening. What were they carrying on about?
- To have an illicit sexual or flirtatious relationship. · I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!
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He questioned me concerning Captain Leclere’s death; and, as the latter had told me, gave me a letter to carry on to a person in Paris.
Villefort did not need the help of either Valentine or the domestic in order to carry on with his father the strange conversation which he was about to begin.
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