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Cute572 Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Stay the course

Can I used this idiom in setence like?
The doctor gave me five minutes break, I guess, a reward of patiently staying on the course.
  

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The doctor gave me a five-m inutes break, I guess, a reward FOR patiently staying THE course. >Can I used this idiom in setence like ? This is poor English.

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  • The doctor gave me a five-m inutes break, I guess, a reward FOR patiently staying THE course.
  • >Can I used this idiom in setence like ?
  • This is poor English.
  • Starting reading English books.
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The doctor gave me a five-minutes break, I guess, a reward FOR patiently staying THE course.
>Can I used this idiom in setence like?
This is poor English. Starting reading English books.
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The idiom that I'm familiar with is "staying the course". This means "continuing with something through to the end, even though it may be arduous". This expression could well be appropriate in this sentence, but one would need to know the full context to be completely sure.

I would interpret "staying on the course" literally, with "course" possibly meaning a training course or a co
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Thank you Mr. Wordy Emotion: smile
Its like during procedure the doctor give me a break in it and I am describing that i stay patiently during
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The doctor gave me a [remove extra space] five-minute break -- a reward, I guess, [add comma] for patiently staying the course.

Provided the procedure is taking a long time, it's OK. You would not use "staying the course" for something that lasted only thirty seconds.
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