keep the ball rolling

[keep the ball rolling] {v. phr.}, {informal} To keep up an activity or action; not allow something that is happening to slow or stop.

* /Clyde kept the ball rolling at the party by dancing with a lamp shade on his head./

Compare: GET THE BALL ROLLING.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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