plod through

plod through (something)

To continue to make progress through something at a slow and laborious but consistent pace. A: "How's that report coming?" B: "I'm still plodding through it. I should be finished by tomorrow." I know she's been plodding her way through all the applications we received.
See also: plod, through
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

plod through something

to work one's way through something laboriously. I just plodded through my work today. I had no energy at all. This is certainly a lot of papers to have to plod through.
See also: plod, through
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • plod through (something)
  • plod away (at something)
  • plod away at
  • plod
  • plod along
  • How's (it) with you?
  • How's with you?
  • plod on
  • How's about...?
  • How's by you?
References in classic literature
'Oh, yes, that's all he is good for: he can plod through the service well enough; but he has not a single idea beyond it.'
Agnes Grey
I TOO can remember the long plod through the snow to school.
Letter: Your Say - I TOO can remember the long plod through the snow to school
Neither could the disciplinary approaches, from straightforward historical surveys, like Elizabeth Cromley's over-structured plod through 150 years of American domestic architecture, to Stephen Walker's hyper-intellectual analysis of Bataille's concept of alteration, written in the autistic style favoured by a certain school of architectural theory.
Architectural curate's egg