plough on

See also: plow on

English

Verb

plough on (third-person singular simple present ploughs on, present participle ploughing on, simple past and past participle ploughed on)

1. To continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring

   We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel.

   • 2024 January 10, Jo Kaye, “Greater support for the railway family”, in Railway Magazine, number 1000, page 50:

     Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.