carry on about
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He might carry on about growing up in Wyoming as the son of a forest ranger or what he learned graduating in the top quarter of his law school class at Pepperdine.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
Not to carry on about this, but when social media punctuates a post with #Steinered, it sadly means the listener is bewildered about what just happened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2019
Now, in the aftermath of the carnage, let us not just carry on about high ideals like freedom and “civilization.”
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2015
“I doubt the English see this as something to carry on about, particularly at a moment of the Scotch independence drive,” he said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2014
“Sorry, Amelia, but if I let you carry on about her moral duties when the girl plainly has no notion of them herself, this conversation will last all night.”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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