stay the course

stay the course
держаться до конца, не сдаваться [выражение связано со старинным развлечением - травлей медведя собаками]

‘What shall we all be doing at three hundred?’ Mr. Propter speculated. ‘Do you suppose you'd still be a scholar and a gentleman?’ ‘One will certainly have stopped being a gentleman,’ he answered. ‘One's begun to stop even now, thank heaven. But the scholar will stay the course.’ (A. Huxley, ‘After Many a Summer’, part I, ch. VIII) — - Что бы мы делали, если бы дожили до трехсот лет? - задумчиво спросил мистер Проптер. - Вы думаете, вы остались бы ученым и джентльменом? - Джентльменом, безусловно, перестал бы быть, - ответил Проптер. - Сейчас уже перестаю, слава богу. Но как ученый я бы продержался до конца.

Once she had had a pony of her own... If she had been allowed to ride it quietly, getting off whenever she liked, to give it sugar, she might have stayed the course... (M. Dickens, ‘The Winds of Heaven’, ch. 2) — Когда-то у Эллен был собственный пони... Если бы ей разрешили спокойно на нем ездить, слезать с него, когда ей захочется, и кормить его сахаром, то она, вероятно, выдержала бы эти поездки...


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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