'V way prep/adv' - Construction 15
| Name: | the murder your way to a goal construction |
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| Description: | A person does something bad to achieve a goal. |
| Verbs: | bamboozle, bribe, bully, burgle, butcher, cheat, dominate, dupe, fake, fiddle, flirt, gamble, grovel, hustle, insinuate, inveigle, kill, manipulate, massacre, mislead, murder, pillage, pimp, plot, plunder, rape, rig, scheme, steal, trick, wangle, weasel, wheel and deal |
| Example: | …a choice between murdering your way to the throne… (BNC) |
| Membership: | figurative movement; into/out of a situation / towards a goal; by subterfuge |
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