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Difference between Have a way with someone and Have one’s way with someone

have a way with someonehave natural ability to deal well with smb.:

  • I oughtn’t to blame you if Marion’s taken a shine to you. You must have a way with women.

have one’s way with someone—

1. impose one’s authority on a person:

  • …they were pagans. And thus I had my way with them, and we set sail at once.

2. (euph.) make a person have sex:

  • Although she struggled, she was no match for him and he had “had his way with her.”