go one's own way en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic) To act on one's own or according to one's own wishes, without regard of the advice of others.
Why should she say, like a parrot, what her governess told her to, when there were birds and beasts and creeping things outside to study, and a library inside full of things really worth learning? So she went her own way, growing wistful and more lonely, and every day her big eyes grew wiser and fuller of secrets.
1907, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Bruce Rogers, The Princess Pourquoi, Mifflin & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| went one's own way | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| goes one's own way | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| going one's own way | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gone one's own way | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Relateds
have it your way · plough one's own furrow · go their separate ways · go it alone
Translations (5)
fr aller son chemin (Translations) · pl pójść swoją drogą (Translations) · pl iść swoją drogą (Translations) · fi kulkea omaa tietään (Translations) · de eigene Wege gehen (Translations)