find a way around
find a/(one's) way around (someone or something)
1. Literally, to successfully navigate and learn where things are in a particular area or place. The new office building is so big that it took me weeks to find my way around.
2. To successfully evade something. We need to find a way around this traffic jam if we're ever going to get to the restaurant.
3. To devise a way to do something, in spite of problems or setbacks. Oh, we're still going to the party. We'll find a way around your punishment, even if we have to sneak you out of the house.
See also: around, find, way
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
find a way around someone or something
1. Lit. to find a way to pass around someone or something to get to the other side. I could hardly find a way around the tables in the crowded restaurant to get to the restroom.
2. Fig. to find a way to evade the rules, or someone's restrictions. The students are always trying to find a way around the regulations.
See also: around, find, way
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- find a/(one's) way around (someone or something)
- know (one's) way around
- know one's way around
- know way around
- know your way about/around
- know (one's) way about
- make (one's) way through
- literally
- walk on a thin line between (something) and (something else)
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