'V way prep/adv' - Construction 22

Name: the munch your way through food construction
Description: A person consumes something in a particular way. The NP following the preposition indicates the item consumed.
Verbs: booze, chew, chomp, drink, eat, feast, gasp, gnaw, graze, guzzle, lick, munch, nibble, nosh, peck, puff, slice, slurp, smoke, taste, work
Example: Hungry snails are munching their way through thousands of Christmas cards... (BNC)
Membership: figurative movement; through an artefact; consuming
Semantic fields and roles:
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