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get the better of
vs
make one's way around/past/over
get the better of
verb
To overwhelm or overcome
To gain an advantage over.
To trick or con.
make one's way around/past/over
How often have the words
get the better of
and
make one's way around/past/over
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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