Verb
keep the show on the road (third-person singular simple present keeps the show on the road, present participle keeping the show on the road, simple past and past participle kept the show on the road)
(idiomatic) To be able to proceed with a plan or project, often in the face of difficult circumstances.
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. Elizabeth Bowen
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. Robert Harris (novelist)