march on

march on (third-person singular simple present marches on, present participle marching on, simple past and past participle marched on)

1. To continue or keep on.

   This process has marched on no matter how we try to stop it.

   • 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post‎:

     The world changes, consumerism marches on, and things once considered luxuries for the well-heeled are now taken for granted by us all — homes with 2½ bathrooms, air travel, cars with power windows.

2. To protest (a place or institution).

   We're going to march on City Hall!

3. To invade or attack (a place); to move towards a place in preparation for an attack.

   At dawn, we march on the city.

• chroman, monarch, nomarch