Definition of Keep step

1. Verb. Maintain the same pace. "The child cannot keep step with his big brother"

Exact synonyms: Keep Pace
Generic synonyms: Keep Up

Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep Step

keep one on one's toes
keep oneself to oneself
keep open
keep out
keep out of
keep pace
keep quiet
keep schtum
keep score
keep shtum
keep somebody posted
keep someone company
keep someone in the dark
keep someone in the loop
keep someone on ice
keep step (current term)
keep straight
keep tabs on
keep the change
keep the home fires burning
keep the peace
keep to oneself
keep track
keep up
keep up appearances
keep up with
keep up with the Joneses
keep watch
keep wicket

Literary usage of Keep step

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Selection of Spiritual Songs with Music for the Sunday-school by Charles S. Robinson (1882)
"With the right keep step! Know the world is watching you; Be sin - cere in all you do; VV 1/2 S -*-t=fe ^3 With the good, the pure, and true, Ev - er firm, ..."

2. Lyrics of Loyalty by Frank Moore (1864)
"keep step with the music of Union! What grandeur its Flag has unrolled For the loyal, a star-lighted Heaven ; For traitors, a storm in each fold ! ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"The simplest of military training is learning how to keep step, and that is a great ... keep step! That does not mean that the men have to think alike. ..."

4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1901)
"Now," she said, "we won't leave the room this first time; we'll just march round and round till we all can keep step, and later we '11 practise going ..."

5. The Carol: A Book of Religious Songs for the Sunday School and the Home by Charles William Wendte (1886)
"With the right keep step! Know the world is watching you; Be sin-cere in all you do- CHORUS. With the good,the pure,and true, Ev-er firm, keep step ! ..."

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