meaning of 'Maintain the heights'

[shery]

English Idioms and Expressions, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #2 "Send the right message", question 6

Keep your spirits up, it may not be as bad as you think.

(a) Don't get depressed
(b) Carry on drinking
(c) Don't let the levels drop
(d) Maintain the heights

English Idioms and Expressions, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #2 "Send the right message", answer 6

Don't get depressed, it may not be as bad as you think.

Correct answer: (a) Don't get depressed
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please just wanted to know the meaning of :maintain the heights - don`t let the levels drop

shery

[Mister Micawber]

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They don't really mean anything (beyond the combination of the words themselves); they are 'false collocations' created as distractors for this question.
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Canadian-American native speaker
who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's
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[lost_soul]

Hi, MM
I tried googling them to find out if they are popular, and here is the result of my research:
Maintain the heights http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Maintain+the+heights%22
over 22 thousand links

The other one alas wasnt so popular which means that it probably oddly sounds
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Alex

A native speaker of Russian

[Mister Micawber]

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And if you google 'keep the heights', you get 62,400 English pages-- but that tells us nothing about whether it's an idiom, lost soul. They are just collocations of words... and not particularly popular at that. I don't think that we should consider phrases to be commonly acceptable in any sense until we get hits of at least 6 digits.
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