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take a licking and keep on ticking

To continue to function, endure, or persevere despite suffering injuries, damage, setbacks, losses, failures, etc. Taken from an advertisement for Timex wrist-watches: "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." When you're younger, your body can take a licking and keep on ticking, so it's easy to fall into a false sense of invulnerability. This old truck of mine has taken quite a licking over the years, and it just keeps on ticking.
See also: and, keep, licking, on, take, ticking

take a licking but keep on ticking

To continue to function, endure, or persevere despite suffering injuries, damage, setbacks, losses, failures, etc. Taken from an advertisement for Timex wrist-watches: "It takes a Licking and keeps on ticking." When you're younger, your body can take a licking but keep on ticking, so it's easy to fall into a false sense of invulnerability. This old truck of mine has taken quite a licking over the years, but it just keeps on ticking.
See also: but, keep, licking, on, take, ticking
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • take a licking and keep on ticking
  • take a licking but keep on ticking
  • get along without
  • carry on somehow
  • have legs
  • persevere
  • persevere at
  • persevere in
  • persevere with
  • persevere with (something)
References in periodicals archive
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Israel is God's prophetic clock
"This city is a Rolex watch, it just keeps f**kin tickin."
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Hip-hop percussion and Cubist vision: "Africa" climbing the spine like an unwanted mime at the post-colonial crossroads
Tickin, 'Culture or inequality in sex-selective abortion?: A response to Sawitri Saharso,' Ethnicities No.
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Euro candidates THE following parties have candidates nominated for election to the European Parliament on June 4: British National Party; Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"; Conservative Party; English Democrats Party; Jury Team; Liberal Democrats; No2EU:Yes to Democracy; Pro Democracy: Libertas.eu; Socialists Labour Party; The Green Party; The Labour Party; United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)..5,933 - number of staff employed by the European Parliament, not including MEP assistants1,39 - the number of euros the Parliament tickin 7m s it costs to keep ng over each yearpounds 60,277 - a British MEP's annual salary.
EU and your's - the facts; With the European Parliamentary elections looming on June 4, SUE SCOTT looks at what Brussels means to business in the Tees Valley