- Continue in the face of difficulty - Keep going - Keep making an effort to somehow preserve direction - Leave no stone unturned - Stand firm - To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken;
to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose
in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to
give or abandon what is undertaken.
- Continue despite opposition - Continue doggedly - Continue in the face of difficulty - Continue steadily - Converted priests persevere - die hard - Endure
- Keep going - Make longer - Outside labourers strengthen and stretch - To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space;
to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a
war. - To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as,
to protract a decision or duty. - To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles
of, with scale and protractor; to plot. - To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its
claws; -- opposed to retract.