pick one's way

pick one's way
{v. phr.} To go ahead carefully in difficult or unfamiliar places; advance with care. * /After nightfall we drove slowly along, picking our way until we found the right turn./ * /He picked his way across the rough and rocky hillside./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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