just keep swimming
Push through anyway
Just keep swimming is an exhortation to persist through difficulty, popularized by the 2003 film *Finding Nemo* where it serves as a mantra for the forgetful fish Dory.
The phrase encourages continuing forward despite obstacles, uncertainty, or exhaustion—the aquatic equivalent of putting one foot in front of the other: Things are rough right now, but just keep swimming.
- dorySmall flat-bottomed fishing boat
- blue tangTropical marine fish, oval-shaped
- persevereContinue despite obstacles
- oceanMassive saltwater body
- wavesTraveling energy disturbances
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- catchphrasescatchphrase, why so serious, cowabunga, good grief, yabba dabba doo
just keep swimminggive up
Stop attempting something
quit · throw in the towel · surrender · capitulate · abandon hope
just keep swimmingdespair
Total absence of hope
catastrophize · fall apart · spiral · brood · ruminate
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