find way

find (one's)/its way

To arrive at a particular place or situation unintentionally or in a roundabout way. I found my way into counseling after the grief became too much to bear.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

find one's way (around)

Fig. to be able to move about an area satifactorily without getting lost. I can go downtown by myself. I can find my way around. I know the area well enough to find my way.
See also: find, way

find one's way (somewhere)

[for someone] to discover the route to a place. Mr. Smith found his way to the museum. Can you find your way home?
See also: find, way
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • find (one's)/its way
  • find its way somewhere
  • find one's way
  • find your/its way
  • end up at
  • end up at (some place)
  • find (oneself) with (something)
  • find oneself with
  • lose touch (with one)
  • lose touch/contact
References in periodicals archive
How might understanding how different dog breeds relate through their DNA help scientists find ways to improve canine health?
As Myernick tells it, sometimes you have to find ways to take your mind off your pain--"that tendonitis that all the girls have in the same ankle from running in a 'Snow' circle for 40 shows in a row." She swears, however, that the thing that gets her through The Nutcracker every year is her beloved Mariah Carey Christmas album.
Strategic planning is needed to better understand why this is so and to find ways to address it.
This is achieved through profiles of scientists, engineers, and academicians who find ways to avert danger through a variety of techniques.
The commission was created by Archbishop Rowan Williams to find ways of maintaining "the highest degree of communion possible" in the Anglican Communion, which is composed of 38 self-governing provinces in 164 countries.
He has stated a willingness to find ways to use all recycled materials, including recycled concrete as roadbase, and has shown an openness to listen to new ideas and to find ways to properly use recycled products in roadwork.
Hutslar shows how to find ways to understand and benefit from those difficulties.
But why not err on the side of caution and seek to find ways to terminate pregnancies in the most humane ways possible for both the woman and the fetus?
She works with unmotivated, stressed-out or over-worked entrepreneurs, teachers, health-care professionals, government bureaucrats and small business owners to find ways to boost morale, increase productivity and bring some fun back into their professional lives.
Correcting these misperceptions is the goal of a group of American educators who went straight to the source to team more about the Middle East and find ways to incorporate this information into their teaching.
Part Four, Charting a Common Course, challenges our society and public land managers to find ways to respect tribal needs while honoring those of established religions by managing sacred sites for "mutual accommodation of intercultural differences."
They have taught social studies and geometry and still managed to find ways to hold the fleeting attention span of students in a classroom.
So Bolivians--and Brazilians and Argentines--are calling ap Chile's Arica port to find ways to get "Made in Chile" stamped on their goods.
"We challenge all churches, parishes, congregations, and people of good will to find ways and means to expose and eradicate anti-Semitism within and from Canadian society.
But he had to find ways to do this so that unpredictable eruptions of homophobia might not harm these causes.