remain one’s chin-up To steadfastly keep up an individual’s courage and eliminate, to keep a person’s morale up, to store your lead stored large.

continue a person’s nostrils on grindstone To persist into the a distressing task; to help you labor continuously, particularly at the difficult, monotonous works; so you can work unceasingly; so you can drudge. The allusion is probably to help you laborers hanging more grindstones or whetstones so you can hone products generated boring out-of lingering use. The term and variations, and that time off at the least 1532, in the first place meant to oppress someone else from the exaction away from work. (more…)