"plough one's way" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ploughs one's way",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed one's way",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "plough<,,> one's way"
      },
      "expansion": "plough one's way (third-person singular simple present ploughs one's way, present participle ploughing one's way, simple past and past participle ploughed one's way)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1903, W. H. Henshaw, “A Sea-Serpent in Hawaii”, in Thomas George Thrum, compiler, Hawaiian Annual and Almanac, Thomas George Thrum, page 68:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make one's way."
      ],
      "id": "en-plough_one's_way-en-verb-DQZu4U8-",
      "links": [
        [
          "make one's way",
          "make one's way"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make one's way."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "plow one's way"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "plough one's way"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ploughs one's way",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughing one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ploughed one's way",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "plough<,,> one's way"
      },
      "expansion": "plough one's way (third-person singular simple present ploughs one's way, present participle ploughing one's way, simple past and past participle ploughed one's way)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1903, W. H. Henshaw, “A Sea-Serpent in Hawaii”, in Thomas George Thrum, compiler, Hawaiian Annual and Almanac, Thomas George Thrum, page 68:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make one's way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make one's way",
          "make one's way"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make one's way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "plow one's way"
    }
  ],
  "word": "plough one's way"
}