keep the pot boiling (English, verb)
expansion: keep the pot boiling (third-person singular simple present keeps the pot boiling, present participle keeping the pot boiling, simple past and past participle kept the pot boiling)
Senses:
glosses: To maintain one's livelihood; to continue to procure the necessities of living.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: To continue going on actively, as in certain games.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: keeps the pot boiling
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: keeping the pot boiling
tags: participle
present
form: kept the pot boiling
tags: participle
past
form: kept the pot boiling
tags: past