go steady

Almost always — in nearly every show, in nearly every movie ranging from serious to comedic — the stillness of death is signaled with the beep of an EKG going steady and its line going flat.

He and I made each other aware in beginning that it was casual, but he was giving signals that he wanted it to go steady.

“I was like, I’m going to ask this girl to go steady,” Mr. Pinzone said.

Before long, he asked her to go steady and gave her his ring.

The time he tried to go steady with a Russian girl, but her parents didn’t approve because Jacob was Mexican.