keep on trucking
Don't give up
Keep on trucking means to persist or continue forward despite difficulties—to keep going, keep moving, keep at it.
The phrase emerged from 1960s and 70s counterculture, popularized by underground comics showing figures striding forward with exaggerated confidence.
It's now a somewhat dated but still understood expression of encouragement: Things are tough, but we just keep on trucking.
- never give upMaintain effort indefinitely
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
- driveOperate a vehicle
- big rigTractor-trailer combination
- journeyTravel from place to place
counterculture · hippie culture · underground comix · perseverance · grit · advance · Americana · tenacity · resolve · optimism · proceed · fortitude · slang · determination · haul · CB radio · move forward · idiom
keep on truckinggive up
Stop attempting something
quit · surrender · throw in the towel · call it quits · abandon
keep on truckingdespair
Total absence of hope
lose heart · accept defeat · resign oneself · succumb · lose faith
keep on truckinggrind to a halt
Gradually cease all motion
stagnate · idle · stop dead · give up the ghost · vegetate
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