"make the best of one's way" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "make<,,made> the best of one's way"
      },
      "expansion": "make the best of one's way (third-person singular simple present makes the best of one's way, present participle making the best of one's way, simple past and past participle made the best of one's way)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, John Frederick Dennett, The Voyages and Travels of Captains Parry, Franklin, Ross, and Mr. Belzoni",
          "text": "[…] you, in this case, are to abandon all thoughts of returning by the northern passage, and are to make the best of your way home-ward, by Cape Horn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym/Chapter 23",
          "text": "Thoroughly exhausted by our exertions, we made the best of our way back to the platform, and throwing ourselves upon the bed of leaves, slept sweetly and soundly for some hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go by the best possible route."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_the_best_of_one's_way-en-verb-28S7jQlx",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic) To go by the best possible route."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make the best of one's way"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made the best of one's way",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "make<,,made> the best of one's way"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, John Frederick Dennett, The Voyages and Travels of Captains Parry, Franklin, Ross, and Mr. Belzoni",
          "text": "[…] you, in this case, are to abandon all thoughts of returning by the northern passage, and are to make the best of your way home-ward, by Cape Horn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838, Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym/Chapter 23",
          "text": "Thoroughly exhausted by our exertions, we made the best of our way back to the platform, and throwing ourselves upon the bed of leaves, slept sweetly and soundly for some hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go by the best possible route."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic) To go by the best possible route."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make the best of one's way"
}