(chiefly UK, idiomatic) To vigorously promote or defend one's interests, views, etc.

To take a shortcut.

(transitive, intransitive) To accustom (a person) to the vicissitudes of life; to cure a person of naïveté, selfishness, etc. by exposure to reality.

A confluence in the Black Przemsza river, White Przemsza river, becoming Przemsza river, in what is now Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; once the meeting point of the Empire of Russia, German Empire, Austrian-Hungarian Hapsburg Empire.

(of a look or glance) Sideways, obliquely, askance / (of a look or glance) With suspicion.

(Commonwealth of Nations) New management imposes radical changes, but those with prior experience have more knowledge.