🗓️ Idiom: Keep the Faith (verb )
💬 Meaning
- To continue believing in success or a good outcome.
- To stay hopeful and confident, even in difficult times.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The sales team kept the faith during a slow quarter, believing that their hard work would pay off.
- Even when investors were doubtful, the founder kept the faith in her startup’s long-term vision.
- The manager told her staff to keep the faith as the company worked through financial challenges.
🏛️ Origin
The phrase keep the faith comes from the language of religion, where “faith” meant trust in God or spiritual belief. By the 19th century, it began to be used more widely to mean holding onto hope, loyalty, or trust in a positive result. Today, it is common in both religious and non-religious settings as a phrase of encouragement.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Even when things looked bad, the team decided to __________.
Answer
keep the faith
2. Multiple choice:
What does “keep the faith” mean?
a) To stop trying
b) To stay hopeful and believe in success
c) To change your plan quickly
Answer
b) To stay hopeful and believe in success
3. Change the sentence using keep the faith:
He stayed hopeful about finding a new job.
Answer
He kept the faith about finding a new job.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
