fight

fight (one's way) through

1. To force one's way through (a crowd or crowded place). The party was so packed with people that I had to fight through just to get to the bathroom! We had to fight our way through the crowd to board the train on time.
2. To struggle to overcome or succeed despite (some obstacle, difficulty, or impasse). The team has been fighting through a number of injuries among its star players. I have to find a way to fight my way through this creative slump. The regime is increasing its pressure on our resistance. We all need to band together and fight through.
See also: fight, through

fight (one's) way back to (something or some place)

1. To struggle or use force to return to some place, position, or thing. The party was so packed with people that I had to fight my way back to where my friends were talking. We had to fight our way through the crowd to board the train on time.
2. To struggle to return to some condition or state. The political candidate will have to fight her way back to the top of the polls. After a devastating civil war, the country has to fight its way back to a position of stability and prosperity.
See also: back, fight, way
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fight

 (one's way) through (something)
1. to struggle to get through something; to struggle to penetrate something. I'll have to fight my way through all this crepe paper in order to reach the punch bowl. The room was filled with trash, and I had to fight through it to get to the other door.
2. to struggle to work through all of something. I have to fight my way through this stack of papers by noon. I am tired of fighting through red tape.

fight

(one's way) back (to something) to struggle to return to something or some place. She fought her way back to the head of the line. Jan fought back to good health.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See:
  • (one) won't give up without a fight
  • (you) can't fight city hall
  • a fight to the finish
  • a fighting chance
  • a knock-down, drag-out fight
  • a straight fight
  • an uphill fight
  • be fighting a losing battle
  • be fighting fit
  • be fighting for (one's)/its life
  • be fighting for your life
  • be fighting mad
  • be in fighting trim
  • be spoiling for (something)
  • be spoiling for a fight
  • be spoiling for a fight, argument, etc.
  • bitter end, (fight) to the
  • bun fight
  • can't fight City Hall
  • can't fight City Hall, one/you/they
  • come out fighting
  • could fight a circle-saw
  • could fight a circle-saw (and it a runnin')
  • couldn't fight (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't fight (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
  • councils of war never fight
  • fight
  • fight (one's way) through
  • fight (one's) corner
  • fight (one's) own battles
  • fight (one's) way back to (something or some place)
  • fight (one's) way out
  • fight (one's) way out of (something)
  • fight (someone or something) hammer and tongs
  • fight (someone or something) tooth and claw
  • fight (someone or something) tooth and nail
  • fight (something) through
  • fight a losing battle
  • fight a rearguard action
  • fight about
  • fight about (someone or something)
  • fight against
  • fight against (someone or something)
  • fight against time
  • fight among yourselves/ourselves/themselves
  • fight amongst
  • fight back
  • fight back at (someone or something)
  • fight down
  • fight fire with fire
  • fight fires
  • fight for
  • fight for (one's) life
  • fight for (someone or something)
  • fight for life
  • fight hammer and tongs
  • fight in armour
  • fight it out
  • fight like a lion
  • fight like cat and dog
  • fight like hell
  • fight like Kilkenny cats
  • fight off
  • fight on
  • fight or flight
  • fight out
  • fight over
  • fight over (someone or something)
  • fight shy of
  • fight shy of (someone or something)
  • fight shy of something/of doing something
  • fight the good fight
  • fight through
  • fight to death
  • fight to the death
  • fight tooth and claw
  • fight tooth and nail
  • fight way out
  • fight with
  • fight with (someone or an animal) over (someone or something)
  • fight with (someone or something)
  • fight with (someone or something) about (someone or something)
  • fight your corner
  • fight your own battles
  • fighting chance
  • fighting chance, a
  • fighting fit
  • fighting mad
  • fighting spirit
  • fighting talk
  • fighting words
  • finger itches to, one's/my
  • first rule of (something): do not talk about (something)
  • fish-fight
  • get into a fight
  • give up the fight
  • go down fighting
  • go fight city hall
  • have a dog in the fight
  • have a dog in this fight
  • have a fighting chance
  • he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day
  • He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
  • I won't give up without a fight
  • in fighting form
  • in fighting trim
  • knockdown drag-out fight
  • knock-down drag-out fight, a
  • knock-down, drag-out fight
  • like fighting snakes
  • like the devil
  • live like fighting cocks
  • live to fight another day
  • losing battle, (to fight) a
  • never fight a land war in Asia
  • pick a fight
  • pick a fight/quarrel
  • pick a quarrel
  • put up a fight
  • spoil for (something)
  • spoiling for a fight
  • that cock won't fight
  • them's fighting words
  • Them's fighting words!
  • throw a fight
  • tooth and nail, fight/with
  • while two dogs are fighting for bone, a third one runs away with it
  • You can’t fight city hall
  • you can't fight City Hall
References in classic literature
As the time went by, he had fewer and fewer fights. Men despaired of matching him with an equal, and Beauty Smith was compelled to pit wolves against him.
White Fang
"If Tom'll only condescend to fight with his head and heels," as East mutters to Martin, "we shall do."
He'll hit all the fight out of you in another five minutes, and then I shall go and drown myself in the island ditch.
Tom Browns Schooldays
But the bull had changed again, and did not want to fight. Ordonez stamped his foot in the sand, and cried out, and waved the scarlet cloth.
All fight was now out of the bull, and, though it was no vital thrust, he trotted lamely what of the sword that stuck through him, in one side and out the other.
The Night Born
And Cheese-Face did not give in, and the fight went on.
The next day and the next, days without end, witnessed the afternoon fight. When he put up his arms, each day, to begin, they pained exquisitely, and the first few blows, struck and received, racked his soul; after that things grew numb, and he fought on blindly, seeing as in a dream, dancing and wavering, the large features and burning, animal-like eyes of Cheese-Face.
Martin Eden
"There were slain and drowned in this fight well near one thousand of the enemies, and two special commanders.
This gallant fight of the little Revenge against the huge navy of Spain is one of the great things in the story of the sea; that is why I have chosen it out of all that Sir Walter wrote to give you as a specimen of English prose in Queen Elizabeth's time.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
Take hold, then, of the whip and reins while I stand upon the car to fight, or else do you wait this man's onset while I look after the horses."
If they miss the sound of your voice when they expect it they may be frightened, and refuse to take us out of the fight. The son of Tydeus will then kill both of us and take the horses.
Iliad
Ever and again a larger thunder mingled with the rattle and reminded him of the grapple of airships far above, but the nearer fight held his attention.
The central tangle of the battle above was circling down as if to come into touch with the power-house fight. He got a new effect of airships altogether, as vast things coming down upon him, growing swiftly larger and larger and more overwhelming, until the houses over the way seemed small, the American rapids narrow, the bridge flimsy, the combatants infinitesimal.
The War in the Air
"And I also am to fight with this gentleman," said Aramis, coming in his turn onto the place.
Three Musketeers
It was the first time that these Mana-Atorians had seen Gahan of Gathol fight, but Tara of Helium knew that he was master of his sword.
The Chessmen of Mars