push on
English edit
Verb edit
push on (third-person singular simple present pushes on, present participle pushing on, simple past and past participle pushed on)
- (idiomatic) To persist, persevere.
- Synonym: press on
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 30:
- The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route, […]
- 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
- The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, on.
- Push on the door if it doesn't open automatically.