going concern

noun, thriving business (COD)

“He said grave robbing was a going concern there.”

“It was a big going concern, Hotel Dieu [Hospital]. They did everything, you know.”

“And boats that sunk, they’d salvage stuff off them. Yeah, they’d salvage stuff off them, and maybe even raise the boat. He had quite a going concern there.”

” … there was a telegraph office on Garden Island, but none on Wolfe Island, ’cause that was the going concern, Garden Island — Calvin’s, yeah, big business over there, then. Shipbuilding and building those rafts.”

“Well, I forget how many cattle they had. There was over a hundred. For the cheese factory. And the boats used to land right down here and pick up the cheese. There was a big dock down here then … Must have been a pretty good going concern when it was running back then.”