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I don't know if you knew this, but the "Keep calm and carry on" poster was rarely published in WW2 times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

• easytiger 6y ago
  In terms of language change, i wonder when the phrase "carry on" changed. Historically I've heard it often said to ones valet for example when one is done with them. Famously "Carry on Jeeves", but i'm sure it was very much used in this sense as a polite stoic dismissal to return to work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On,_Jeeves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On,_Jeeves Then the "Carry On" bawdy farce comedy Movies starting in 1958, double entendre laden as they are, implying the historical reference as well as the implication of horse play and frivolity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_(franchise) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_(franchise) And then in my lifetime in my part of the world it was vernacular for "messing around" or something that has happened which is very much unbecoming. Often my parents would say things of the type "You grandmother lost her glasses on the bus, it was a while carry on" or if children were being raucous, "Would you stop carrying on like that"