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

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 through a strange city in a strange land and without more than a bare smattering of the language under conditions of inky blackness was surely the supreme ordeal.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney

That is why a perambulation of the stalls is as perilous as to pick one's way through hot ploughshares.

From Prose Fancies by Richard Le Gallienne

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

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