have one's way with
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[edit]Verb
[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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (engage in sexual intercourse): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (rape): outrage, ravish, turn out, violate, vitiate
Translations
[edit]to engage in sexual intercourse
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