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Last week I started giving Russian lessons to a student… actually, three students (I’ve gone from zero to three in a week!), but this one turned out to be an author of books on Business English. I was astonished! He showed me one of his latest books with basic Business English phrases and I wished I had this book years ago, when I was a student myself. Somehow we were never taught the ‘real’ English, but some ancient form of it (and I don’t mean Old English either – they’ve made us work really hard on that one).
There was one phrase in that little book that caught my attention – I must admit I haven’t come across this one before – ‘to make your own way‘, as in:
– Shall I send a car for you?
– No, thanks, I can make my own way.
And another example:
– Is it still possible for someone to pick me up, or should I make my own way to the airport? (Wordreference.com)
Confessions of the Linguistic Spy 