live, horse, and you will get grass

live, horse, and you will get grass

If you persist through difficulty, you will eventually reap benefits. The phrase of encouragement comes from a story of a farmer who plants grass for his horse and tells the horse to live until the grass has time to grow. Yeah, but if your business can survive this recession, all of your hard work will pay off. As the saying goes, "Live, horse and you will get grass."
See also: and, get, grass, will
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

horse

1. n. heroin. (Drugs. Because it begins with H.) Horse is still very popular in the big cities.
2. n. horse dung. I got a job shoveling horse out of the stables.

live

mod. cool; great. Everything’s live! No problem!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • horse
  • live
  • break a leg
  • Break a leg!
  • hang in there
  • a tower of strength
  • go get 'em
  • give it time
  • keep the faith
  • Keep the faith baby!