one more round

Syllable breakdown

Dictionary meaning

an idiom drawn from boxing that urges continuing to fight — to persist through one more period of effort, endurance, or treatment — even when exhaustion and pain make stopping feel irresistible; in boxing a round is a defined period of combat with a brief rest between rounds, and the champion is the fighter who can sustain performance across all the rounds the contest requires; to commit to one more round is to break the total remaining effort into a manageable increment — not to promise to fight forever but to agree to continue through the next finite period, after which the commitment can be renewed; in health contexts the phrase is used by patients and caregivers to describe the approach of taking treatment one session, one day, or one cycle at a time rather than contemplating the full weight of what lies ahead; the reduction of an overwhelming whole into a series of manageable units is a recognised psychological coping strategy, and one more round gives this strategy a dramatic and embodied metaphorical form