have one's way with

English[edit]

have one's way with (third-person singular simple present has one's way with, present participle having one's way with, simple past and past participle had one's way with)

Synonym of have one's way (“to obtain the circumstances one wishes for, with somebody or something”)
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
  He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life’s colour or life’s comeliness! In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran and with one good heave, tumbled him overboard.
(idiomatic, euphemistic) To engage (as the more active or dominant partner) in sexual intercourse with, especially without the consent of one's partner; rape.
- 1964 June 18, “Ann Landers—Your Problems”, in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix‎^[1], Canada, retrieved 26 Sep. 2011, page 8:
  Their daughter is being married in haste because she had the misfortune to go out with a terrible young man who took her to a wild beach party, got her drunk, and then had his way with her.
- 2004 May 12, “FSC student acquitted of 2002 campus sex assault”, in Worcester Telegram & Gazette‎^[2], USA, retrieved 26 Sep. 2011, page 8:
  "She passed out, and when she passed out he had his way with her," Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Marotta told the jury in his closing argument.

to engage in sexual intercourse