plough through

“One hundred dollars a month to stand in the way of potential car bombs that might plough through the front entrance sounds crazy now that I think of it.”

Hundreds of residents can be seen walking through the knee-high floodwater along the popular Lagos Bridge, while most vehicles are unable to plough through the high volume of water.

He will just plough through it.

So as we plough through thousands of undealt-with emails and reluctantly turn off the out-of-office autoreply, here's a diverting selection of animals to appreciate, along with the comfort that comes with knowing that for yet another year, the zoo hasn't lost a lion or mislaid a marmoset.

A book published this year by Johnson and fellow MIT economist Daron Acemoglu surveyed a thousand years of technology - from the plough through to automated self-checkout kiosks - in terms of their success in creating jobs and spreading wealth.