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Plough on   /plaʊ ɑn/   Listen
Plough on

verb
1.
Continue moving forward.  Synonyms: press on, push on.






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"Plough on" Quotes from Famous Books



... like our Hills,' said the people of Shamlegh. And they fell to wondering how a man could live in the hot terrible Plains where the cattle run as big as elephants, unfit to plough on a hillside; where village touches village, they had heard, for a hundred miles; where folk went about stealing in gangs, and what the robbers spared the ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

... looked through a "find" of more than 200 Jersey Gaulish coins, which are in the possession of R. R. Lempriere, Esq. They were turned up by the plough on his manor of Rozel; and whatever covering had enclosed them had either gone to decay, or become broken up, as they were quite loose. He had cleaned a few of them. Even to the eye the metallic composition varied greatly—some being of the ...
— The Coinages of the Channel Islands • B. Lowsley



Words linked to "Plough on" :   go on, advance, progress, move on, pass on, march on



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