plow through
Push ahead relentlessly
Plow through means to make steady, often laborious progress through something substantial.
You might plow through a heavy workload, a dense novel, or a plate of food—the image is of forcing ahead despite resistance, like a plow cutting through soil.
I plowed through three hundred pages last night.
The phrase can suggest either determined effort or a lack of finesse, depending on context.
- deal withManage or address
- plough intoCollide forcefully with
- bulldozeDemolish using heavy equipment
- wadeWalk through impeding substance
- trudgeWalk slowly, heavily
burrow · pierce · grind · plug away · persevere · soldier on · finish · endure · penetrate · plough up · complete · slog · shove · bore · push · drill · tunnel · forge ahead
- motion idiomsin motion, on the move, on the go, move forward, move along
- perseverancepersist, never give up, tenacity, hang in there, endurance
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- forceful movementspush, shove, thrust, propel, ram
- searchsearch, web search, seek, text search, hunt
- compressioncompress, compression, compressor, compressing, compact
plow throughskim
Pass over lightly
skim over · browse · scan · flip through · leaf through
plow throughabandon
Leave behind permanently
give up on · quit · drop · walk away from · set aside
plow, plows, plowed, plowing, plowman, plowshare, through, thorough, thoroughly