'V way prep/adv' - Construction 12
| Name: | the ease your way into a situation construction |
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| Description: | A person uses careful tactics to achieve a goal. |
| Verbs: | dodge, ease, edge, feel, grope, inch, manoeuvre, navigate, nose, pick, prise, sidestep, squeeze, steer, thread, twist, weave, worm |
| Example: | …as though to ease his way through a dubious world. (BNC) |
| Membership: | figurative movement; into/out of a situation / towards a goal; by moving |
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