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get one's way

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  1. Also,. Be allowed to or make others do as one wishes. For example, Two-year-olds often scream until they get their own way, or All right, I give in—have it your own way. [Late 1500s]


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Ah! that's all very fine," cried George; "but how is one to get one's way without?

From The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Sedgwick, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley

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