(idiomatic) To travel on foot; to walk or run. ... (idiomatic) To campaign diligently; to seek something, such as business, employment, or answers. After a brief and unsuccessful search, he decided it was time to start pounding the pavement.

What does phrase pound the pavement mean?

Definition of pound the streets/pavement

: to walk or run on the street especially in search of something She's out there every day pounding the pavement, looking for work.

Where did the saying pounding the pavement come from?

In American newspapers and periodicals from the 1880s to the 1920s, it was police who most often pounded the pavement, such that one could suspect that the expression originated among beat cops or those describing them.