one's way

(one's) (own) way

What one wants; the manner in which one wants or demands something to be done. Our toddler is so stubborn. If he doesn't get his way, he throws a total tantrum. Don't bother arguing—the boss has to have it done her own way, or she won't sign off on anything you do.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*one's (own) way (with someone or something)

[get/have] one's control over someone or something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~.) The mayor got his way with the city council. He seldom gets his own way. How often do you have your way with your own money? Parents usually have their way with their children.
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*one's (own) way

one's way of doing something; one's will or desire. (*Typically: get ~; have ~.) She always has to have her own way. She thinks no one else can do it right.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (one's) (own) way
  • way
  • a still tongue makes a wise head
  • allow
  • allow (one) free rein
  • allow (one) full rein
  • put (one's) hand up
  • put hand up
  • put up (one's) hand
  • put your hands up
References in periodicals archive
It is being suggested that there must be a change in one's ways following the encounter with and adoration of the Savior.
And recognizing the error of one's ways is always an important first step to change.
His list includes giving charity, distancing oneself from sin, straightening out one's ways, and changing one's name.
"Change is always difficult and it is easy to get set in one's ways."
Failure to see the error of one's ways was understandable, for there was much profit to be made in Needless Alley.
The chapter on 'Satiric Nationalism', with its treatments of Swift, Voltaire, and Montesquieu, for instance enlarges one's ideas about generalizing and the reflections cast by elsewhere on one's ways of life.
There is time to wake up and realize the error of one's ways, and now is better than later.
But confronting the dark side of one's own character and changing one's ways is not necessarily the easy option.
And though the city has no statistical evidence, its judge believes the jail time is a powerful motivator for mending one's ways.
Giniewski advisedly uses the Hebrew terms of vidui (recognition and confession of one's sin), teshuva (the commitment to amend one's ways), and tikkun (the actual remedial deed) to describe the three necessary stages the Christian world must go through in order to effect the mutation, or transformation.
Unable to see the road beyond his dissatisfaction, the young monk stayed faithful to his special Benedictine vows of stability (remaining in his monastery) and conversio morum, the continual willingness to allow God's grace to "change one's ways."
(It is no accident that the audience targeted for such literature was largely made up of women and children.) In this moralizing tradition, the growth of consciousness is synonymous with the growth of conscience and a consequent adjustment of one's ways to the sober path of right action.
Customs are described as behavioral and are commonly practiced by members of a social group, while traditions are defined as customs which have been preserved for generations and have greater influence on one's ways of thinking and