to plough a lonely furrow
1plough a lonely furrow — To be separated from one s former friends and associates and go one s own way • • • Main Entry: ↑plough * * * plough a lone/a lonely/your own/furrow literary phrase to be the only person doing something or interested in something …
2plough a lonely furrow — plough a lone/lonely furrow mainly British, literary to do something alone and without help from other people. He d always been happier working in isolation, ploughing a lone furrow …
3plough a lonely, your own, etc, furrow — ˌplough a lonely, your own, etc, ˈfurrow idiom (literary) to do things that other people do not do, or be interested in things that other people are not interested in Main entry: ↑ploughidiom …
4plough a lone furrow — plough a lone/lonely furrow mainly British, literary to do something alone and without help from other people. He d always been happier working in isolation, ploughing a lone furrow …
5plough a lone furrow — plough a lone/a lonely/your own/furrow literary phrase to be the only person doing something or interested in something Thesaurus: to do something without helpsynonym Main entry: plough …
6plough your own furrow — plough a lone/a lonely/your own/furrow literary phrase to be the only person doing something or interested in something Thesaurus: to do something without helpsynonym Main entry: plough …
7plough — [[t]pla͟ʊ[/t]] ploughs, ploughing, ploughed (in AM, use plow) 1) N COUNT A plough is a large farming tool with sharp blades which is pulled across the soil to turn it over, usually before seeds are planted. → See also snowplough 2) VERB When… …
8plough a furrow — Brit literary ◇ If you plough your own furrow, you do something that is different from what other people do. She was not afraid to plough her own furrow. [=to act independently; to do something no one else has done] If you plough the same furrow …
9plough — plough1 also plow AmE [plau] n 1.) a piece of farm equipment used to turn over the earth so that seeds can be planted 2.) under the plough BrE formal land that is under the plough is used for growing crops →↑snow plough plough 2 …
10plough — I UK [plaʊ] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms plough : present tense I/you/we/they plough he/she/it ploughs present participle ploughing past tense ploughed past participle ploughed * to turn over the soil before putting seeds into… …
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