steady-as-she-goes

adj

Etymology

From the nautical phrase steady as she goes.

Definitions

  1. steady

    steady; careful; avoiding sudden change

    • Graham James, the bishop of Norwich, is favourite everywhere of the steady-as-she-goes party. He is widely experienced – he worked in Lambeth Palace under the previous archbishop, Lord Carey – and widely trusted, as well as scholarly.
    • He looked to be in fine shape, sitting glassy-eyed behind the wheel, staring straight at the narrow two-lane highway, holding a steady-as-she-goes course of fifty miles an hour.

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