pick one's way



pick one's way

Find and move through a passage carefully, as in She picked her way through the crowd outside the theater, or, more figuratively, He picked his way through the mass of 19th-century journals, looking for references to his subject . [Early 1700s]
See also: pick, way

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Celestynatse-les-TIN-ahPolish
AnniceAN-isEnglish
Matthiasmah-TEE-ahs (German), mə-THIE-əs (English)Greek, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
TyTIEEnglish
AndrÉIa-Portuguese (Brazilian)
Feodora-Russian