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What is meant by the band plays on?

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And the band plays on is an expression to depict that things keep going along, whether difficulties happened or trouble was encountered. It can be a sarcastic phrase showing things keep going after someone has a failure. On the Titanic, the string band kept playing as the ship sunk.

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