push on

present singular third person pushes on · participle present pushing on · participle past pushed on · past pushed on

1. idiomaticTo persist, persevere.

   The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.

   1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262

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   The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route, […]

   1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30

   Synonyms: press on

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on.

   Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.