Pegging Away (Keep)
. Keep on attacking, and you will assuredly prevail. “But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and weʹll not fail” (Macbeth). Patience and perseverance will overcome mountains. It was President Lincoln who gave this advice to the Federals in the American civil war.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.