plough on en · VERB
Meanings
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To continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring
Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.
2024 January 10, Jo Kaye, “Greater support for the railway family”, in Railway Magazine, number 1000, page 50:We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ploughing on | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| ploughed on | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| ploughed on | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| ploughs on | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |