have one's way

Definitions

1. To obtain the circumstances one wishes for; to do what one wishes to do, or to have others do what one wishes them to do.
   idiomatic
2. To achieve a desired or natural result.
   idiomatic
3. To have sexual intercourse with, especially without the consent of one's partner.
   euphemistic

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Examples

“He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let⟳ me drink⟳ it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like⟳ any baby. […] And so it was ten days or more before youth and health had their way, and I was strong again; and all that time Elzevir Block⟳ sat by my bed, and nursed me tenderly as a woman. So piece by piece I learned the story of how they found me.”

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