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saw one's way clear to

saw one's way clear to is the simple past of see one's way clear to.

Meaning of see one's way clear to

Verb

see one's way clear to (third-person singular simple present sees one's way clear to, present participle seeing one's way clear to, simple past saw one's way clear to, past participle seen one's way clear to)

  1. (idiomatic) To manage to commit oneself to (a decision or course of action).
    • [N]othing but revenge was on the cards, and he could not see his way clear to that.1884, Charles Reade, chapter 17, in A Perilous Secret

Questions about saw one's way clear to

What is saw one's way clear to the simple past of?
Saw one's way clear to is the simple past of see one's way clear to.

Words near saw one's way clear to in the dictionary

  1. saw into a millstone
  2. saw log
  3. saw logs
  4. saw off
  5. saw off the branch one is sitting on
  6. saw one's way clear to
  7. saw one's way to
  8. saw oneself out
  9. saw out
  10. saw over
  11. saw palmetto

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