make one's way

Verb

make one's way (third-person singular simple present makes one's way, present participle making one's way, simple past and past participle made one's way)

1. (idiomatic) To move forward, usually toward a destination or goal, physically or conceptually.
   • ... to tread upon enemies, and make our way over them, notes the compleatest victory and highest triumph ...1658, Joseph Caryl, An Exposition with Practical Observations continued upon the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and twenty-one Chapters of the Book of Job..., page 226
   • Coastal routes always provide difficult engineering problems, where a coast is rocky and cliff-bound, owing to the necessity for crossing all valleys and ravines making their way to the sea.1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: L.M.S.R. Wick Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 130

   Synonyms:

   insinuate, worm one's way