From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe here to staybe here to stayUSE somethingto become accepted and used by most people Professional women’s basketball is here to stay. → stay
Examples from the Corpus
be here to stay• Perhaps it is time we had a choice between parties which agree that liberal free-market economics are here to stay.• The Classics is here to stay.• Without question, the Africanized bees are here to stay.• Teams are here to stay, and participating in them is the only option.• Hence the extent to which Conservative criminology is here to stay depends on more than mere changes of political parties.• Running is here to stay, even if Baby is gone.• Managed care is here to stay, experts at the conference agreed Wednesday.• He believed that Money Advice was here to stay, whatever happened to the economy. 