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feel one's way



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Idioms and Phrases

Proceed cautiously, as in Until we know who we're dealing with, we'll have to feel our way . This expression alludes to groping by touch when one is unable to see. [Early 1600s] Also see feel for , def. 1.
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Example Sentences

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Expansion has so made the English what they are—for good or for ill, but on the whole for good—that one doesn't quite feel one's way to say for one's country "No—I'll have none of it!"

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He knew that sixty paces were to be made in a straight line, and that afterwards it would be necessary to feel one's way along the wall in order not to knock against the subterranean staircase of the temple.

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A month is too short a time in which to feel one's way in London.

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I should conceive it would not be very difficult to feel one's way thro' these Plays, and distinguish every where the metal from the clay.

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"It's all very well, I daresay," said she; "but one should feel one's way."

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