plough one's way

present singular third person ploughs one's way · participle present ploughing one's way · participle past ploughed one's way · past ploughed one's way · alternative US plow one's way

1. idiomaticTo make one's way.

   It was not until centuries later, when the ships of the white invader ploughed their way islandward, that flies and mosquitoes, centipedes and scorpions, and a host of insect pests, large and small, were introduced to temper the delights of the island paradise for all future time.

   1903, W. H. Henshaw, “A Sea-Serpent in Hawaii”, in Thomas George Thrum, compiler, Hawaiian Annual and Almanac, Thomas George Thrum, page 68