Plough a lonely furrow

Plough a lone/lonely furrow idiom

Definition of plough a lone/lonely furrow

British, literary

to do something alone or do something that no one else will do
She has had to plough a lone/lonely furrow in her pursuit of reform.

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Dinesh ^club

. . . . A travleler to the Andaman Islands in the mid-twentieth century rote that the natives there reacted similarly to the prospects of planting coconuts, asking why anyone should “care for a tree for ten years to get it nuts when the island and seas around are teeming with food for the taking?” so it was that the Chumash hunter-gatherers trade fish for the corn grown by their farming neighbors, not once taking up shovels and hoes themselves. Even the African Pygmies who lived for centuries as seasonal laborers for farmers and therefore understood agricultural techniques intimately never took toi sowing seeds full time. As it would turn out, giving up hunting and gathering was no advance in quality of life. After the advent of farming, people grew smaller, weaker, and more sickly as they struggled to nurture and harvest crops – conditions that wouldn’t be reversed until the invention of the plow and harnessed oxen. ~ Page 138

20 months ago. Edited 20 months ago.

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