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plow on

idiom
Meaning

To continue with a menial, tedious, or time-consuming task.


Examples
SIMPLE

The work is boring, but we must plow on.

CONTEXTUAL

Even though the project felt endless, the team decided to plow on until they finished the report.

COMPLEX

Despite the exhaustion of the long journey and the relentless rain, the explorers chose to plow on toward their distant destination.

Anchors to
Related idioms7entries
  1. 01

    plough a lonely furrow

    To carry out an action in isolation, or in an original way, without any help or support from others.

  2. 02

    plough money

    To invest money in a project or endeavor, especially to help it succeed or earn more money.

  3. 03

    plough one's way

    To make one's way.

  4. 04

    plough the back forty

    To engage in sexual intercourse.

  5. 05

    plow one's way

    Alternative spelling of plough one's way.

  6. 06

    plow the sands

    to spend considerable time and effort to do something useless; to waste time

  7. 07

    plow with one's heifer

    To have an affair with another man's wife or to deal with the wife in order to obtain something from her husband.

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