"plough on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ploughs on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "plough on (third-person singular simple present ploughs on, present participle ploughing on, simple past and past participle ploughed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 10, Jo Kaye, “Greater support for the railway family”, in Railway Magazine, number 1000, page 50:",
          "text": "Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring"
      ],
      "id": "en-plough_on-en-verb-NhaK3Qyk",
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "boring",
          "boring"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plough on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ploughs on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "plough on (third-person singular simple present ploughs on, present participle ploughing on, simple past and past participle ploughed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 10, Jo Kaye, “Greater support for the railway family”, in Railway Magazine, number 1000, page 50:",
          "text": "Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "menial",
          "menial"
        ],
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "boring",
          "boring"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plough on"
}