plough one's way

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Tomake one's way.1903, W. H. Henshaw, “A Sea-Serpent in Hawaii”, inThomas George Thrum, compiler,Hawaiian Annual and Almanac,Thomas George Thrum,page68:It was not until centuries later, when the ships of the white invaderploughed their wayislandward, 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.

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