'V way prep/adv' - Construction 14
| Name: | the grow your way out of difficulty construction |
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| Description: | A person does something legitimate to achieve a goal. |
| Verbs: | adapt, automate, barter, bat, borrow, bowl, box, build, busk, buy, cook, dance, dive, earn, export, finance, fund, grow, hit, invest, jump, kick, manage, market, merge, network, organise, paddle, paint, play, produce, ride, save, sell, shrink, skate, ski, spend, swim, tax, think, trade, train, walk, wrestle, write |
| Example: | …28% of businesses were growing their way out of recession… (BNC) |
| Membership: | figurative movement; into/out of a situation / towards a goal; by positive action |
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