make one's way
Idioms-
Go in a particular direction or to a particular destination, as in I'm making my way to the china department , or How are we going to make our way through this underbrush? This usage was first recorded about 1400.
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Also, make one's own way . Advance in life by one's own efforts, His family hasn't much money so he'll just have to make his own way in the world . [c. 1600]
Example Sentences
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I was thinking about Butler’s grandmother moving, having this chicken farm, and then her granddaughter becoming a well-known author and just that progression of trying to make one’s way in a place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Bercow reintroduced to popular British lexicon the word “beetled,” meaning to make one’s way hurriedly, as in: Say it, sort it and move on.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019
But in a way, we've all become "budget travelers," because although it might be harder nowadays to make one's way across Europe on 20 bucks a day, getting there has never been cheaper.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2011
Intellectuals have forgotten, or else they never understood, how difficult it is to make one's way up from a low economic level, to assert one's will in a great crude way.
From Time Magazine Archive
My brother, a man of experience, had said: "One must have a dress coat if one wishes to make one's way in the world."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Henry Cabot Lodge
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