I have a question about "shoot one's way into" here:
Lanza killed his mother then shot his way into the Newtown school on Dec. 14, 2012, and gunned down 20 children and six educators before committing suicide.
I checked dictionaries, and couldn't find the phrase "shoot one's way into". Could this be some regional idiom or journalistic jargon?
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search; for example:* his way into
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