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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Example Sentences

One might pick one's way on stilts, or with cleat-boards, but in my present weakness I dared not adventure either method.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

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 Mahoney, Henry Charles

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

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

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 Malins, Geoffrey H.

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir