get your own way

Meaning

1. Oxford60% of films

   to get or do what you want, especially when sb has tried to stop you

   Leslie, darling, this time, you must let me have my own way.

   You know, like a child who's throwing a tantrum, because he can't have his own way.

In the movies · 5

• She'll have her own way, same as her mother.The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
• Leslie, darling, this time, you must let me have my own way.The Letter1940
• You know, like a child who's throwing a tantrum, because he can't have his own way.Whatever Works2009

Learn it in full scenes

• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
  • Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
  • Lucy Insists on Gull Cottage
  • Lucy Rents the Haunted House
• The Letter1940
  • Leslie Confesses After the Shooting
  • Leslie Recounts the Night Hammond Died
  • Leslie Describes Shooting Hammond
• Whatever Works2009
  • Boris Breaks the Fourth Wall
  • Boris Panics and Jumps Out the Window
  • Boris Takes Melodie In

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• cut both ways
• either way

More idioms

• go through the motions
• have it in you
• leave it at that
• on sale
• out of the ordinary
• be fair
• in the wrong
• draw the line
• that is
• that is to say
• along lines
• to the point