pick one's way

Idioms  

1. Find and move through a passage carefully, as in She picked her way through the crowd outside the theater, or, more figuratively, He picked his way through the mass of 19th-century journals, looking for references to his subject. [Early 1700s]

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pick one's way

It was a lucky thing that in Lord John we had found an expert driver, for it was no easy matter to pick one's way.

From The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Nets, coils of ropes, big sails, baskets, boxes, odd bits of iron, some anchors—one has rather to pick one's way.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington

If one is fighting, you know, one cannot stop to pick one’s way.

From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

To pick one's way in the dark over strange ground littered with débris is not an easy task.

From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Geoffrey H. Malins

It was necessary to pick one's way as one went, and as the light was defective stumbles were not infrequent.

From The Beetle by Richard Marsh