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Idiom Continue Live Behave One's Usual Order Hide

Front IDIOM: to continue to live or behave in one's usual way, especially in order to hide the loss of money, social position etc from other people (or - what Hyacinth Bouquet did)
Back His parents' obsession  with KEEPING UP APPEARANCES haunted his childhood.

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