Idiom
pound the pavement
Meaning
To travel on foot; to walk or run.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need to pound the pavement to find a new job.”
“After graduating, she spent weeks pounding the pavement, visiting every office in the city to hand out her resume.”
“The determined candidate spent the entire summer pounding the pavement, knocking on doors and speaking to voters in every neighborhood across the district.”
Examples
simple
“I need to pound the pavement to find a new job.”
contextual
“After graduating, she spent weeks pounding the pavement, visiting every office in the city to hand out her resume.”
complex
“The determined candidate spent the entire summer pounding the pavement, knocking on doors and speaking to voters in every neighborhood across the district.”
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