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plow into
Idioms and Phrases
Strike with force, crash into; also, attack vigorously. For example, The truck plowed into the retaining wall , or Carol plowed into the pile of correspondence . This expression transfers the force of the farmer's plow to other enterprises. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
The broad-brush picture is known: About 60 million years ago, the Indian Plate began to plow into Eurasia and thrust up the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth.
It involved a Hezbollah drone that managed to evade Israel’s vaunted air-defense system and plow into a mess hall at the base.
I then watched the knucklehead plow into a wall on the shoulder, bolt from the car, run through traffic and leap over the center divider.
Wealthy Californians also have hordes of excess cash they can plow into down payments that help offset high borrowing costs.
Matthew Moore, a 55-year-old actor, producer and artistic director of Improv for the People, is 6 feet 4 inches tall and is careful to not plow into who he referred to as “smaller people” during class.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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