the show must go on

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  1. Regardless of what happens, whatever show has been planned still has to be staged for the waiting patrons. literally
    — Two other very personal issues that Holly discloses are her ongoing struggle to maintain a weight she feels comfortable with, and her virtual breakdown from exhaustion in 1984. Her "the show must go on" martyrdom attitude was painful to read, for her stress-related problems demonstrate the irony that idealistic activists often live exactly the overworked, underpaid life they are hoping to end for everyone.
  2. One must finish what one has started; things must continue no matter what. idiomatic

词源

Originated in the 19th-century circus industry.
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