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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He knew firsthand how difficult it was to make one’s way as a filmmaker, and trying to do it under the shadow of a successful father promised to be that much harder.
From Los Angeles Times
Education matters in this country, and it is no longer good enough to graduate high school and make one’s way into the workforce, because the workforce is a hard road to travel to not only survive and be self-sufficient, but to truly find some sort of path beyond day-to-day living.
From Washington Times
The hall was densely crowded by this time, and it was becoming more and more difficult to make one's way in any given direction.
From Project Gutenberg
In Australia there are birds that sing, and odoriferous trees and flowers in great profusion, and the forests, at those places whither the axe of the busy settler has not yet penetrated or imparted to it a park-like aspect, are as dense, as thickly clothed with underwood, and as difficult to make one's way through, as in any other quarter of the globe under a similar latitude.
From Project Gutenberg
It would have been necessary to make one's way either through heaps of withered rushes, requiring to be broken down at every moment, or across thick, matted, fresh, slippery grass, in order to get anywhere near the copse that resembled the pinewood.
From Project Gutenberg
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