plough through
phrasal verbplough (your way) through something
- to force a way through something
- She ploughed her way through the waiting crowds.
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- (of a vehicle or an aircraft) to go violently through something, out of control
- The plane ploughed through the trees.
- to make slow progress through something difficult or boring, especially a book, a report, etc.
- I had to plough through dozens of legal documents.