have one's way

It is one thing to have one’s way with a pliant woman, something else to contend with a difficult one.

The verb, still hot from the oven of someone's fertile imagination, seems to be taking on the meaning of to dominate, to overpower, to subdue, to have one's way.

After all, it was not hard to rule, nor to have one's way in this world.

To do that is his plain duty and business, which is not to be put away for the sake of indulging in any petulant or romantic impulse to withdraw from an assembly because one cannot have one's way there.

After all, it was not hard to rule, nor to have one’s way in this world.