pick up/take the ball and run with it
to continue an activity or process that someone else has started, often when that person could not finish it or make it work:
We had a very vague idea of what we wanted, but the marketing team just took the ball and ran with it.
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Continue & last
- (it's) business as usual idiom
- bash on
- carry (sth) on
- cease
- cont
- contd
- drag
- keep at sth
- keep on doing sth
- keep on trucking idiom
- keep sb at it idiom
- nine
- push
- run over (sth)
- see sth out
- segue
- soldier on
- spill
- stick
- string
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