What does way mean

Crossword clues for way

way

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

way

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a haphazard way/manner/fashion

▪ I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way.

a long way away

▪ Liz lives in Cheltenham, which is a long way away.

a long way from

▪ We’re still a long way from achieving our sales targets.

a long way

▪ Springfield is a long way from Chicago.

a systematic approach/way/method

▪ a systematic approach to solving the problem

▪ a systematic way of organizing your work

a useful way of doing sth

▪ Keeping lists of the words you learn is a useful way of remembering vocabulary.

a way of coping

▪ Working hard was a way of coping with his grief.

a way out of a dilemma (=a way to solve it)

▪ There seemed to be no way out of the dilemma.

acceptable way

▪ Alcohol is not an acceptable way out of your problems.

admire the way

▪ I really admire the way she brings up those kids all on her own.

all the way round

▪ The ballroom’s huge, with windows all the way round.

all the way (=during the whole of the journey)

▪ Hannah didn’t say a single word all the way back home .

alternative ways/approach/methods etc

▪ alternative approaches to learning

▪ Have you any alternative suggestions?

an effective way

▪ What’s the most effective way to control crime?

an efficient way

▪ Email is an efficient way of contacting a large number of people.

an obstacle in the way/path

▪ There were still a number of obstacles in the way of an agreement.

as sb sees it/the way sb sees it (=used to give someone’s opinion)

▪ As I see it, you don’t have any choice.

▪ The way I see it, we have two options.

barred...way

▪ She ran back, but Francis barred her way.

become a way of life

▪ For Mark, travelling has become a way of life.

behaved in a...way

▪ She behaved in a very responsible way.

bluff your way out of/through/past etc sb/sth (=go somewhere or succeed in doing something by deceiving someone)

▪ I hope we’ll be able to bluff our way past the guard.

by a long way/shotinformal (also by a long chalk British English) (= used when something is much better, quicker, cheaper etc)

▪ It was his best performance this year, by a long way.

chomp their way through

▪ British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.

closed society/world/way of life

▪ Venetian art in this period was a closed world.

come a long way

▪ I’ve come a long way to see you.

come a long way (=developed a lot)

▪ Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.

cost-effective way of doing sth

▪ the most cost-effective way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions

detached way/manner

▪ She described what had happened in a cold and detached manner.

devise a method/way

▪ Our aim is to devise a way to improve quality and reduce costs.

different ways

▪ Different people reacted in different ways.

each way

▪ a £10 each way bet

ease the way for

▪ The agreement will ease the way for other countries to join the EU.

edge your way into/round/through etc sth

▪ Christine edged her way round the back of the house.

elbow your way through/past/into etc sth (=move through a group of people by pushing past them)

▪ He elbowed his way to the bar and ordered a beer.

elbowing...out of the way

▪ She pushed through the crowd, elbowing people out of the way.

every inch of the way

▪ Italy deserved to win, though Greece made them fight every inch of the way.

fall far/a long way/well short of sth

▪ Facilities in these schools fall far short of the standards required.

fought...way

▪ She fought her way back into the first team.

go a long way towards (=will help to reach a goal)

▪ Your contributions will go a long way towards helping children in need .

go back a long way (=we have been friends for a long time)

▪ We go back a long way.

going the same way

▪ Many industries have been forced to cut jobs and it looks like the electronics industry is going the same way.

grope your way along/across etc

▪ I was groping my way blindly through the trees.

has right of way

▪ I never know who has right of way at this junction.

have the right of way

▪ The law here says that pedestrians always have the right of way.

in a big way (=to a large degree)

▪ When they lose, they lose in a big way.

in a funny/strange etc kind of way

▪ In a funny kind of way, the bullying made me a stronger person.

in every way possible

▪ The company helped promote the scheme in every way possible.

in such a way/manner that/as to do sth

▪ He lectured in such a way that many in the audience found him impossible to understand.

in the nicest possible way

▪ He told me, in the nicest possible way, that I was interfering too much.

in the normal way

▪ The results will be posted to you in the normal way.

in the ordinary wayBritish English (= as normal)

▪ The money is taxed as income in the ordinary way.

know the way (=know how to get there)

▪ Does he know the way to your house ?

lead the way (=be the first to do something, and show other people how to do it)

▪ The Swedes have led the way in data protection.

learned the hard way

▪ He learned the hard way about the harsh reality of the boxing world.

learned this lesson the hard way

▪ Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way.

led the way

▪ The manager led the way through the office.

like the way

▪ I don’t like the way he shouts at the children.

meaningful way

▪ Teaching history to five-year-olds in a meaningful way can be very difficult.

Milky Way, the

munched...way through (=eaten all of)

▪ They’d munched their way through three packets of biscuits.

nature’s way

▪ Disease is nature’s way of keeping the population down.

no way

▪ ‘Are you going to offer to work over the weekend?’ ‘No way!’

not by a long way/shotinformal (also not by a long chalk British English) (= not at all or not nearly)

▪ He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.

nudge your way to/through etc (sth)

▪ I started to nudge my way to the front of the crowd.

pick your way through a minefield (also navigate/negotiate a minefield) (= behave in a careful way to avoid problems in a difficult situation)

▪ The guide helps you pick your way through the minefield of buying a new car.

proper way

▪ the proper way to clean your teeth

public right of way

▪ The path is not a public right of way.

put sth another way

▪ The dress was too small for me, or, to put it another way, I was too big for it.

put sth this/that way

▪ Let me put it this way - she's not as young as she was.

put/place obstacles in the way (=try to stop someone from doing something easily)

▪ Her father put several obstacles in the way of their marriage.

right of way

▪ I never know who has right of way at this junction.

roundabout way/fashion

▪ It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave.

set in...ways (=habits)

▪ Mark was 65 and rather set in his ways.

show...the way

▪ Come on, I’ll show you the way.

slog your way through/round etc sth

▪ He started to slog his way up the hill.

snaking its way

▪ The train was snaking its way through the mountains.

some way

▪ The donation went some way toward paying for the damage.

some/a little/a long way ahead

▪ The clinic was now in sight, some way ahead.

split sth three/four etc ways (=share something between three, four etc people or groups)

▪ The money will have to be split three ways.

step this way (=walk in the direction I am showing you)

▪ Mr. Ives? Please step this way.

surefire way

▪ Children soon learn that bad behaviour is a surefire way of getting attention.

the American/British etc way of life

the best way forward (=the best way to make progress or deal with a problem)

▪ We believe that a merger is the best way forward for the business.

the best way to do/of doing sth

▪ The best way to learn a language is to live in a country where it is spoken.

the best way

▪ What’s the best way to deal with this?

the exact same thing/way etcinformal (= exactly the same thing/way etc)

▪ If you’d been there, you’d have done the exact same thing.

the opposite way round

▪ Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round.

the opposite way

▪ But the sign was pointing the opposite way.

the way things are going

▪ I feel very encouraged by the way things are going.

the way things are (=the present situation)

▪ I’m not at all dissatisfied with the way things are at the moment.

there is no better way/example/place etc

▪ There’s no better way of exploring the region.

There’s no way

▪ There’s no way I’m going to pay £300 just for a weekend in Paris.

took the easy way out

▪ I just took the easy way out and gave him some cash.

traditional way of life

▪ The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.

wangle your way out of/into sth

▪ I wangled my way into art school.

was wise in the ways of (=knew a lot about)

▪ As a manager, Sanford was wise in the ways of company politics.

way forward

▪ We agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company to be formed.

way of life

▪ The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.

way off (=very far from being correct)

▪ Guess again. You’re way off.

way out

▪ Their forecast was way out.

way out

▪ He was in a dilemma, and could see no way out.

way station

▪ The refugee camps, however dreadful, were a way station to their dream.

went...several ways (=went in different directions)

▪ They shook hands and went their several ways.

wing its/their way to/across etc sth

▪ planes winging their way to exotic destinations

work (its way) loose

▪ One of the screws must have worked loose.

works both ways (=involves two opposite or matching effects)

▪ Loyalty works both ways: we are loyal to our employees and, in turn, they are loyal to us.

your own inimitable way/style etc

▪ He entertained us in his own inimitable style.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

▪ Different units will have found different ways of saving money.

▪ Each we loved in conspicuously different ways, but as sure as we knew them we did love them.

▪ Long-term training in depth may be carried out in many different ways, depending on the character and means of the aspirant.

▪ It has forced me to think in different ways.

▪ Each of us have different ways of trying to express this change.

▪ Complete the sentence in a new and different way each day.

▪ This book suggests many ways in which we can use video in a different way to viewing television.

▪ Table 5-1 describes briefly one of the many different ways each style might be perceived as effective or ineffective by others.

easy

▪ But there is no easy way to undo the nuclear binge of the cold war.

▪ College is simply an easy way for employers to identify workers with strong basic skills.

▪ It was an easy way of keeping a potentially difficult parent quiet.

▪ Scoring the log One easy way is to calculate the percentage of possible occasions when a particular activity or environmental condition applies.

▪ Stencilling is an easy way of producing a complex decoration that will add interest to any area of bare wood.

▪ Our first thought might be that the easy way out is to develop a subject-orientated curriculum.

▪ This is an easy way of raising money, and appeal organisers are hoping other schools might adopt it on their behalf.

▪ Standing orders and direct debits - the easy way to pay gas, electricity and other bills and expenses.

effective

▪ Hiring Huy would be a very effective way of keeping him under observation, and neutralising the effectiveness of his investigation.

▪ Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas.

▪ With him they had space to express their response, which he nurtured and developed in simple yet effective ways.

▪ All our staff receive training on effective ways to polish every surface and clean every corner.

▪ One effective way to study formation processes is through long-term experimental archaeology.

▪ Immunology recommends allergy shots as an effective way to control moderate to severe asthma.

▪ The linker is a very effective way to seam garments which have a horizontal pattern.

▪ The most effective way to locate stress is to scan your body for tension.

good

▪ There's no better way to have your prints delivered to your door.

▪ There is no better way to reduce those doubts than by acting swiftly to pass clear and tough campaign finance reform laws.

▪ Record companies consider this support quite economic because they view a band's tours as a good way of promoting records.

▪ One of the best ways to improve the cost and time performance of any project is to identify and eliminate unnecessary work.

▪ Salzburg is a fascinating city too, and the guided tour is by far the best way to get your initial bearings.

▪ It was the best way to nip this in the bud.

▪ She's becoming as bad, or as good, whichever way you look at it, as Mac.

▪ Do you now think the way of organising your essay was in fact the best way of approaching the topic?

long

▪ In the longer term ways have been proposed to bypass the quantum limit.

▪ He was still a long way off, but his aim was improving.

▪ They were now running alongside the wall, but still a long way from the crossing stile.

▪ But still a long way to go.

▪ He had come a long way with the Elder, as had his family from time immemorial.

▪ I've still got my integrity and my Möbius scarf, and a boy can go a long way with those things.

▪ I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic.

▪ A little of Giles goes a long way.

only

▪ Analogy is the only way to start, and the electron and the electromagnetic field the only place.

▪ The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word.

▪ The only way to design tastefully was to start from scratch, he had said.

▪ The only way that's going to happen is if it looks like a professional West End production.

▪ It does not, however, mean that this is the only way in which the industry could have developed.

▪ In the new state, fostering was the only way to provide a home for orphaned and otherwise parentless children.

▪ The only way you can place a cash bet is with a bookmaker on Saturday.

▪ It was, she tried tirelessly to explain, not a selfish move but the only way to preserve the business.

other

▪ Richard, of course, never deferential, never awed, totally fearless, just played the other way flat out!

▪ Perhaps there was no other way.

▪ They're faster and stronger but in other ways we're as good as them Male speaker We're all learning from them.

▪ He was about to turn and go the other way when he heard voices.

▪ Locating Rabbits Underground Rabbits that will not bolt from a warren must be located and killed some other way.

▪ Maybe it would be better if we sat facing the other way?

▪ Unemployment also disenfranchises in other ways.

▪ With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way.

right

▪ Do you feel that was the right way round for you?

▪ Yet it can speak to us, if we approach it the right way.

▪ And I know she knows, but I worry that maybe I haven't said the right words the right way.

▪ One must find a way of ruling out the runaway solutions by choosing the initial accelerations in just the right way.

▪ There are no absolutely right or wrong ways to apply it, only good or bad practices.

▪ The right way is refusing to let any school fail a child.

▪ But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way.

▪ Firms must find the right way to deliver their message.

similar

▪ Partial randomization of presentation order was achieved in a similar way to that described for Study 2.

▪ The torso of a Dahomey woman was photographed by Penn in a similar way.

▪ In a similar way Paris remarks at the end of the scene: Sweet, above thought I love thee.

▪ Many other studies have been conducted, either in exactly the same or a very similar way.

▪ The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way.

▪ Other types of blown vinyl are made in similar ways, and may include metallic-type paper surfaces with a slightly reflective sheen.

▪ Clearers are also visited in a similar way.

▪ The band must remember that recording costs are treated in a similar way to advances.

wrong

▪ First, usury is not intrinsically wrong in the way that murder, adultery or theft are wrong.

▪ He says impact fees have a negligible effect and are the wrong way to go.

▪ He was driven round the wrong way in a car in heavy rain.

▪ One day, when I came home from work, she really pushed me the wrong way.

▪ Maggie said that I shouldn't make risky jokes with assessors in case they take it the wrong way.

▪ He drove off the lot, up Fox the wrong way so he could park on Prospect.

▪ His uncertainty is comprehensible, but he appears to have jumped the wrong way.

▪ She picks up the iron the wrong way and burns her hand.

■ NOUN

home

▪ I was so over the moon I walked all the way home to Streatham with this huge smile on my face.

▪ The girl had insisted on driving her all the way home.

▪ She took the long way home, and walked slowly.

▪ A sore-kneed Sid Bream gasped his way home and barely beat Barry Bonds' throw to end it.

▪ Some supporters were on their way home, when John Durnin ran through and scored to make it 5-3.

▪ I sometimes come down here to feed those critters on my way home.

▪ But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home.

▪ He watched the lessons from his perch, and when they were over he ran all the way home.

■ VERB

behave

▪ I am ensuring that you behave in the way you ought.

▪ He is asked to behave in ways which run counter to his natural desires, and he resents this.

▪ Early traumas come back to haunt such cats and force them to behave in strange ways.

▪ It is true that many physicians do not behave in this way toward their patients.

▪ The failure of the shareholders to behave in an owner-like way is problematical only if they are appropriately categorised as owners.

▪ A crucial point about epidemics is that not all members of a given population behave in a uniform way.

▪ Horses are all different, and will not necessarily behave the same way in identical situations.

▪ As an entity, the United States behaved in the same way.

change

▪ The Baptist Missionary Society has recently changed the way it organizes home support for its missionaries.

▪ Congress is changing Medicare in ways that will push more elderly beneficiaries into managed-care plans.

▪ Easy-to-learn performance and production techniques, together with readily accessible models in recorded form, change the way music is made.

▪ Harmful or not, the trend is already changing the way researchers see themselves.

▪ The relationship between professional and client is also changing in other ways.

▪ And do you enjoy the challenge inherent in changing the way you do things from time to time?

▪ He would be mad to try and change his way of life now.

▪ But we think you should give her another chance and see if she can change her ways.

clear

▪ This would clear the way for the creation of a multiparty system in the Soviet Union.

▪ Inmates were paid 50 cents a day for the back-breaking chore of clearing right of way through dense forests and laying track.

▪ Douglas Reyburn clearing the way for the future.

▪ But there is no sign that the disgrace of the last Soviet satrap will clear the way for peace.

▪ Clear the way! Clear the way, you idiot!

▪ By the time Owen arrived the crowd was sixty deep and he had to get his constables to clear a way through.

fight

▪ This typified the controversy that raged as he fought his way to the top in the late sixties.

▪ And did that cause him to fight the way he did against Nelson?

▪ It didn't deter the 3,000-odd who fought their way in.

▪ Bar girls were screaming, and trying to fight their way past us.

▪ At the very least, they could organize to fight the oppressive way in which science gets done.

▪ The whole restaurant cheered me on as I fought my way out into the night.

▪ And here the cataract, fighting its way slowly upstream, encountered the subterranean remains of a much older watercourse.

find

▪ We have to find a way to utilise our fifty thousand members as an educational and propaganda machine.

▪ Life was hard, but people found ways to have a good time.

▪ Where communication is a problem it is for the local authority to find a way round this.

▪ Their last surviving companion straggled in after them; he had found his way alone.

▪ But when I get there I can't find no way out.

▪ Could one of these have found its way into the ear?

▪ Louis de Broglie also tried from time to time throughout his later life to find ways of reconciling quantum mechanics with a more deterministic picture.

▪ Somehow we found our way to the coffeehouse.

force

▪ Foiled raid: Burglars tried to force their way into a house in Northallerton.

▪ I force my way through some bushes at the top.

▪ Some of the rock has forced its way up into other layers like an errant thumb.

▪ Mrs Johnstone, 35, was discovered by police who forced their way into her locked pub shortly after 11am yesterday.

▪ The discovery alarmed him so thoroughly that he tried to force his way back to the door.

▪ He forced his way through the rye till he was past the chestnuts, then turned to his right.

▪ Smitty went first, forcing his way through the branches that closed in on the trail.

give

▪ This year Bearcat gave way to Mustang.

▪ Several players hardly seem happy the Raiders reinstated Smith, given the way he abruptly left the team September 27.

▪ After a moment, her knees gave way and she slithered to the floor in a clattering hail of cutlery.

▪ They give you ways to measure progress.

▪ As the dark slowly gave way to light, they saw that the day was going to be hazy.

▪ The Prime Minister I shall give way to the right hon. Gentleman in a moment.

▪ This would give you an easy way to incorporate your own buttons and other pointers.

lead

▪ Cram Liverpool drivers will lead the way to a weekend festival celebrating the Mini in the Lake District next week.

▪ Zhu turned to lead the way, followed by Gao Yang and his police escort.

▪ With Stevenson leading the way, the Machine swept all Cook County and state offices.

▪ He led the way, followed by an ebullient Christina and Elaine, with James sullenly bringing up the rear.

▪ Gooch has led the way with monumental batting efforts and a strict diet of training and practice that leaves younger men breathless.

▪ Our aircraft leads the way whilst the second weaves to left and right to cover our tail.

▪ Then he led the way back to the castle.

make

▪ Alternatively you can make your own way between resorts - our representative will advise you.

▪ The phone rang as she made her way down the hall.

▪ She had been making her way towards Mrs Gracie's door after walking a little.

▪ Masked figures could be seen making their way through the deserted Toronto streets; black crepe sashes hung from the doorways.

▪ She made her way over to him.

▪ High interest rates tend to make it an expensive way to borrow.

▪ Soon, the craft was making its way through the darkness over twenty-foot waves and taking on water.

▪ Lawrence were now making their way from Fort Monroe toward the battle scene.

pave

▪ Althusser's question therefore paves the way for his view that a corpus of knowledge is the outcome of practices.

▪ These two studies paved the way for opening the doors of the premature nursery to parents.

▪ And this does, of course, pave the way for all manner of hilarious aircraft-undercarriage impressions at parties.

▪ It may have paved the way for the 1992 election of Democrat Bill Clinton.

▪ If both you and the other person can find something to laugh about together it paves the way for a harmonious transaction.

▪ He gave as an example some of the early work in genetics which has paved the way for biotechnological developments.

▪ Demolition would pave the way for a major retail and leisure complex masterplan, devised by Damond Lock Grabowski.

▪ This paved the way for leadership in an even greater battle - world war.

pick

▪ I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.

▪ The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.

▪ I put the list away in my file, lock the room and carefully pick my way down the little staircase.

▪ There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.

▪ Every now and again rescue teams of young people would pick their way downhill with a bandaged pilgrim on a stretcher.

▪ I take the Metro to Richelieu-Drouot, exit, and pick my way down the street.

▪ They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.

▪ There was a clearly defined path, but she still had to pick her way with care.

push

▪ They had all just pushed their way into the house, and crowded into the small sitting room.

▪ Auntie Reno said as she pushed her way past me.

▪ He put on his hazard lights, pulled over and pushed his way across the crowded pavement towards the rubbish basket.

▪ I felt like a salmon swimming upstream to spawn as I pushed my way through the cars.

▪ They stabled their horses and pushed their way through the noisy, colourful streets.

▪ He looks harried from having had to push his way through to reach me.

▪ I turned and pushed my way through a group of people to the end of the room.

▪ I pushed my way through and looked at it and started laughing.

work

▪ This disruption stole my attention from Dole, who was working his way toward us.

▪ The parser works its way along the text string word by word.

▪ We work in whatever ways we can toward the end of capitalist patriarchy.

▪ We're constantly working on new ways to excite you!

▪ You can prepare for tough situations at work the same way.

▪ He had worked his way up from foreman in underground heavy engineering projects to resident engineer.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(it) cuts both ways

▪ It cuts both ways to both parties.

▪ The company will probably discover, to its chagrin, that it cuts both ways.

▪ When our album Cuts Both Ways was released in 1989, I couldn't believe how successful it was.

God moves in a mysterious way/mysterious ways

a little (of sth) goes a long way

▪ A little ketchup goes a long way.

▪ Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.

▪ Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.

a long way

▪ For me, a little bit of race watching goes a long way.

▪ Genuine smiles and statements of appreciation go a long way.

▪ He believes it still has a long way to go.

▪ It's a long way from the sturdy frames the technicians normally handle.

▪ Still, they had come a long way since their managerial debut.

▪ Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism.

▪ That tale goes a long way toward explaining why the spineless weasels in Dogpatch have once again rejected a referendum.

▪ The negotiations are over, but the contract is a long way from being signed.

along the way/line

▪ Barns were sometimes built with integral aisles, along the lines of a church.

▪ But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.

▪ He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line.

▪ Moving along the line in the figure shows that a rise in one variable is associated with a rise in the other.

▪ Somewhere along the line, Harriet felt, she had gone wrong with her daughter's upbringing.

▪ The changes that befall us along the way are just the various experiences that we encounter on our journey.

▪ There are quotidian bumps and creases and noteworthy spills all along the way that need attention.

▪ There had been other signals along the way.

any old how/way

▪ By this time nobody was paying any attention, just stamping round any old how.

▪ Go back to living in proper departments instead of any old how all over the place.

▪ Like you they want to dance-not just any old way but a la Alvin Ailey.

▪ The doctors and nurses knew too and just treated you any old way.

▪ There's some stand any old how, you'd be really ashamed of them.

▪ They've dropped things just any old how, he thought, listening to the distant chattering of the nomes.

any way you slice it

▪ It's the truth, any way you slice it.

be all downhill (from here)/be downhill all the way (from here)

be in a bad way

▪ Martin came back from Africa with malaria, and he was in a pretty bad way for months.

▪ You'd better get an ambulance - she's in a pretty bad way.

▪ Duncan saw that he was in a bad way, his face grey and wan.

▪ Effie here is in a bad way for several reasons.

▪ He could see that Longhi, the lowest on the rope, was in a bad way; his hands kept slipping.

▪ I was in a bad way at that time, I felt really depressed, so I went round causing criminal damage.

▪ She was in a bad way and I hated doing it, but I had to.

▪ Some are in a bad way so we share what we have.

▪ Sometimes aircraft returning across the Channel are in a bad way.

▪ The solo climber was in a bad way, and they invited him to rope up with them.

be laughing all the way to the bank

be the wrong way round/around

▪ Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.

block sb's way/path/exit/escape etc

bludgeon your way through/to/past etc sb/sth

claw your way

▪ He will probe unceasingly for loopholes by which to claw his way back to his prewar stature.

▪ In the next seven years, Assad clawed his way up the ladder until he emerged as sole leader in 1970.

▪ She was still clawing her way out of her first marriage, not thinking about the next, as I was.

▪ She was there as her son clawed his way up from the post-coma cognitive level of a 2-year-old.

▪ The vine clawed its way up the wall at the end.

▪ There was not a man present who had not stepped over bodies of rivals to claw his way to his present position.

▪ This was the early-eighties and Britain was clawing its way out of recession on the back of a demand-led boom.

▪ You have to really work and claw your way up there.

clear the way for sth

▪ Almond said he may ask President Clinton to declare Rhode Island a disaster area, clearing the way for federal funds.

▪ And now the White Paper clears the way for these to be used by cable stations.

▪ But there is no sign that the disgrace of the last Soviet satrap will clear the way for peace.

▪ Douglas Reyburn clearing the way for the future.

▪ Losses from restructuring will decline from now on, clearing the way for a recovery in earnings.

▪ That cleared the way for the public release of the scores and scheduling of interviews and a final selection.

▪ This would clear the way for the creation of a multiparty system in the Soviet Union.

could go either way

▪ It could go either way, as we have seen in previous months of March.

▪ M., still could go either way.

▪ The latest opinion poll suggests the vote could go either way.

do sth the hard way

▪ Despite problems at camp, the field army had learned a great deal by then, much of it the hard way.

▪ I have done it the hard way.

▪ I learned that the hard way, by losing a couple of first drafts of articles I was writing.

▪ I was brought up the hard way.

▪ Let them learn the lessons of capitalism the hard way.

▪ Los Angeles City Hall found that out the hard way last March.

▪ Needless to say, I learned about getting things done, the hard way.

either way

▪ A decision either way on Roe can therefore be perceived as favoring one group or the other....

▪ But this is virtually impossible to establish either way so long as the argument has to depend on reported behaviour.

▪ His jeering remarks had hidden barbs, and just went to prove how little he cared either way.

▪ It is possible to make the argument either way.

▪ It seems you can't actually lose either way, doesn't it?

▪ The worker should be comfortable either way.

▪ They were: offences triable only on indictment; offences triable only summarily; and offences triable either way.

▪ We could simply alternate between the two algorithms and catch the suspect either way.

every which way

▪ People were running every which way when the fire started.

▪ Dendrov branched every which way, a forest of tangled stags' horns.

▪ He shook his head in wonder and his hair went every which way.

▪ His hair, dyed tomato red for a new movie, sticks up every which way.

▪ I have tried every which way to get it back down on the bottom.

▪ I tried blanching and not blanching, cutting them every which way and freezing whole.

▪ Instead the field lines would be going every which way.

▪ Martin put a couple of slick fakes on cornerback Larry Brown, turning and twisting him every which way.

▪ They went every which way and there seemed no end to them.

feel your way

▪ He felt his way across the room, and found the door handle.

▪ As she felt her way forward, suddenly a knight on horseback galloped past her.

▪ During their sophomore and junior years, many feel their way toward active participation in one or more facets of college life.

▪ He feels his way through the bowels of the city, conscious of the weight of civilisation above him.

▪ I felt my way around like a blind man and lay down on the bed.

▪ I said, feeling my way.

▪ Then, as John began to climb to where the other had been, Nicholas felt his way to the fallen sapper.

▪ Two men feeling their way out on to the bridge.

▪ We scraped along, edged forward, bumping into one another, feeling our way deeper and deeper into the church.

fight your way (through/past etc sb/sth)

▪ After fighting his way through all this, he would have to face an angry and almost certainly stark-naked Quigley.

▪ Bar girls were screaming, and trying to fight their way past us.

▪ Being fit and healthy is especially important if you have to fight your way out of trouble or run for home.

▪ Dana fights his way through the protocol surrounding the medicine chest, has a recipe drawn up, and delivers his balm.

▪ I think also that three other Hearthwares shall come, in case we need to fight our way out of some tight spot.

▪ Meanwhile, the master had sprung from his position backstage and was fighting his way toward me.

▪ We will swim through seas of blood, fight our way through lakes of fire, if we are ordered.

find its way somewhere

find your way (somewhere)

▪ Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond.

▪ As the sulphur finds its way into his lungs, he will become dizzy and nauseated.

▪ Corporate sponsorship ensures that far more money finds its way into sport than would otherwise be the case.

▪ I go back, and this time I find my way into nondescript offices below ground where priests are transcribing notes.

▪ In due course, these accounts found their way into print.

▪ The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way on to Robert Lee's left boot.

▪ The company said it would have been impossible to keep the new soybeans from finding their way into human food.

▪ You must learn to find your way through the menu maze before you can use the program efficiently.

follow a profession/trade/way of life etc

force your way through/into etc sth

▪ Burglars strike: Intruders forced their way into a house which was being renovated.

▪ He'd schooled himself to ruthlessness, single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle, hacking at anything in his path.

▪ He has recovered from a nightmare pelvic injury and is now forcing his way into Roker's Wembley plans.

▪ Jezrael could feel stupid tears forcing their way through her control.

▪ Smitty went first, forcing his way through the branches that closed in on the trail.

▪ The thieves have been forcing their way into the homes of elderly people, holding them down while searching for their savings.

▪ Then Huddersfield rallied, and the fiery centre-forward Islip forced his way through to beat the tiring Burnley defenders.

go the way of all flesh

go your separate ways

▪ After this they go their separate ways.

▪ He says that they more or less go their separate ways, Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.

▪ In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.

▪ Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.

▪ Or would they go their separate ways, each ruling an independent principality?

▪ She takes it up, the partners disengage and go their separate ways.

▪ They were too readily allowed to go their separate ways.

▪ We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards.

have come a long way

▪ Computer technology has come a long way since the 1970s.

▪ Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.

▪ Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information.

▪ There are still many gaps, but we have come a long way.

▪ They have come a long way, so they spend the first few hours greeting each other.

▪ We certainly have come a long way.

▪ We have come a long way since then, and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness.

in every way

▪ Tamara was his equal in every way.

▪ These two dresses are identical in every way , except for the price tag.

▪ And we should all support it in every way we can.

▪ During these past weeks he had tried in every way to get her out of his mind.

▪ He would spit on people and resist in every way he could.

▪ I hope that my hon. Friend will consider its application sympathetically and support the hospital in every way that she can.

▪ If you make a copy of a file, the copy is identical in every way, except in name.

▪ Shanti and Chris were very helpful in every way, and Shanti's ready laughter and general cheerfulness was a great comfort.

▪ She was the one who was standing still, frozen in every way into herself.

▪ Terry, for her part, tried in every way to keep her parents from finding out how desperately ill she was.

in the family way

▪ Do I appear to be in the family way?

▪ That young scut has put a fancy piece in the family way.

in your own sweet way/time

▪ Did he think he was so important that he could finish the cottage in his own sweet time?

▪ I'd rather carry on in my own sweet way, and I'd rather be in Stockholm.

▪ I probably love him, in my own sweet way.

▪ You can just sit back and read the responses and decide the winner in your own sweet time.

know the way to sb's heart

▪ What a great meal! You certainly know the way to a man's heart!

know your way around sth

▪ And he knew his way around.

▪ Bike testers these days tend to know their way around a track.

▪ For he is convinced he knows his way around better than anyone else on earth.

▪ For those who have used soft chalk pastels and know their way around the tints I would advise loose pastels.

▪ Fortunately, I knew my way around cars.

▪ He knows his way around the course and, with any luck, I felt the ground would come up soft.

▪ The people had been friendly, and she had known her way around.

▪ They seemed to know their way around; at least one of them must have been familiar with the layout.

learn (sth) the hard way

▪ I learned the hard way that drugs weren't an answer to my problems.

▪ But, as Server shows us, he learned apathy the hard way.

▪ Early on he learned - the hard way - that it was the passport to success.

▪ He learned this the hard way, when he tried to move his head.

▪ I learned that the hard way, by losing a couple of first drafts of articles I was writing.

▪ I learned this the hard way.

▪ Mainline medicine learned this the hard way when it first started to use anesthetics.

▪ She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all.

▪ The Lisa designers also learned this the hard way, and their computer shipped with 1024K, or a megabyte of memory.

light the/sb's way

▪ A cold grey light made its way round the corners of the curtains and trickled into the room.

▪ Fand and Liban came behind, but their spears didn't light the way, only set confusing reflections in the walls.

▪ He switched off the kitchen light on his way out.

▪ He went upstairs, moving slowly in his light and silent way.

▪ I look for the planktonic lanterns that sometimes light our way, but this night I do not see any bioluminescence.

▪ Stripes of rock tilted and shimmered in the midday light.

▪ They went through, moving slowly, cautiously, side by side, using their lamps to light the way ahead of them.

look the other way

▪ Politicians have looked the other way while children go hungry.

▪ He tactfully looked the other way and did not pause in his stride.

▪ Mud pools wait until you are looking the other way before plopping discreetly.

▪ Our safe places were attacked by hooligans, and the authorities looked the other way.

▪ Running out of time, minding its own business, looking the other way.

▪ The troops, acting on orders, looked the other way.

▪ Turn a deaf ear, look the other way.

▪ Up stepped Purse, who had only just taken over the penalty duties, as 32,000 Brummies looked the other way.

▪ With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way.

lose your way/bearings

▪ I completely lose my bearings when I go outside the city.

▪ The Congressional black caucus has lost its way since Republicans took over Congress.

▪ When my wife left me, I kind of lost my bearings for a while.

▪ Among right-wing circles this perception simply intensified their existential feeling of Angst, of having lost their bearings.

▪ But somehow, in the zeal to get re-elected, we lost our way.

▪ He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier.

▪ He lit another cigarette and left, losing his way at the end of the corridor.

▪ I am about to lose my way.

▪ John had a mission to become an entrepreneur, but he went out without a road map and almost lost his way.

▪ She claimed she had somehow been placed on an ocean liner that had lost its way at sea.

mend your ways

▪ If he doesn't mend his ways he'll be in jail by the time he's eighteen.

▪ It's possible the college might take you back, but first you'll have to convince them you've mended your ways.

▪ The Communist Party committees tried to 're-educate' him but he refused to mend his ways.

▪ And attempts to mend its ways are running into trouble.

▪ As a result of this report the caretaker was informed that if he did not mend his ways he would be discharged.

▪ More recently, and equally significantly, the colony's stock market had mended its ways.

▪ More uniform arrangements will allow good schools to flourish, they say, while forcing bad ones to mend their ways.

▪ She wrote back in an unusually cheery vein in-tended to demonstrate, I suppose, that she was mending her ways.

▪ This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissolute borrower to mend its ways by withholding finance.

middle course/way etc

▪ But I can find no middle course.

▪ He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests.

▪ How wide is the floodplain of the River Wharfe in this middle course of the valley?

▪ I usually steer a middle course which avoids both waste and effort.

▪ In sum, the mixed economy is a middle way between the market and the command political economies.

▪ Managers must steer a middle course between political correctness and political babble.

▪ Pendulums move to extremes before they steady to the middle course, and so do journalistic trends.

▪ To help him resolve it, he brought in General Joseph McNarney, who eventually decided on a middle way.

muscle your way into/through etc sth

▪ But other alleged triad leaders used violence to muscle their way into the business, according to the police.

▪ Guliaggi and Norrejo are muscling their way through the mob.

on the/your way out

▪ A group of soldiers pushed past him on their way out.

▪ Alive three years ago, now all of them gone or on their way out.

▪ But drive-ins are on the way out.

▪ I fixed an interview time with Sylvia on my way out. 7 Emily Lightbody came back to work the following Monday.

▪ It also looks like Shutt is on his way out ... bit of a shame really.

▪ She hadn't merely failed to notice it on her way out.

▪ The old man could be on the way out, and anyone on the way out is inevitably a centre for drama.

▪ You would carry this in your sock and give it back to the man, reclaiming your clothes on your way out.

open the door/way to sth

▪ He lifts open the door to throw in another pine slab.

▪ I opened the door to find Mrs Puri standing to attention outside.

▪ Lonnie Ali opens the door to the kitchen.

▪ Once you open the door to things that are not related to the Holocaust, where do you draw the line?

▪ She opened the door to the living room.

▪ This design decision was taken to open the door to integration of hypermedia mail, news, and information access.

▪ This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing.

out of harm's way

▪ Move valuable objects out of harm's way when children are visiting.

parting of the ways

▪ They did not say whether Smith was fired, but called it an "amicable parting of the ways."

▪ Anyway, Riley, this is the parting of the ways; and you know something?

▪ I fear we are at a parting of the ways.

▪ It was also easier to get new sales jobs after a parting of the ways.

▪ Much of what I have said tonight points towards a parting of the ways.

▪ Then it was the parting of the ways.

▪ This parting of the ways is of the most profound importance.

▪ Was this a more than merely temporary parting of the ways?

pave the way for sth

▪ And this does, of course, pave the way for all manner of hilarious aircraft-undercarriage impressions at parties.

▪ By paving the way for a national free market, absolutism fostered capitalism.

▪ I pave the way for my people with product specialists, financial experts, the regional boys, whatever.

▪ She would pave the way for a much more slender ideal: the flapper.

▪ The Ports Act 1991 has paved the way for this privatisation of the Trust Ports by competitive tender.

▪ Their unique approach paved the way for an extraordinary leap into the deep earth.

▪ They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal.

pay your way

▪ Pfeiffer worked as a shipping clerk to pay his way through college.

▪ But, in spite of the considerable effort and investment, it has for many years failed to pay its way.

▪ Finally, I offered to become an air hostess to pay my way, and this time, received an immediate reply.

▪ His father is paying his way.

▪ If education postpones such dependency it will have paid its way.

▪ It was an important principle that these housing schemes should pay their way.

▪ It wasn't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way.

▪ Octavia Hill believed, with most other Victorians, that housing should pay its way to her, housing subsidies were unthinkable.

▪ They either pay their way, or they go.

pick your way through/across/among etc sth

▪ Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.

▪ I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.

▪ Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.

▪ So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.

▪ The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.

▪ There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.

▪ They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.

▪ We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin.

point the way

▪ No signs point the way to Carson's grave.

▪ Several themes at the conference point the way for new nursing research.

▪ But although by themselves they do not take us this far, they do at least point the way.

▪ But without critics to point the way, that money might as well be tossed into the wind.

▪ Everything pointed the way towards a better political awareness for young people.

▪ In itself this does not seem to me to point the way towards any helpful scientific theory of mind.

▪ It points the way to new directions for the late 1980s and 1990s.

▪ Several precedents, particularly those established in the forum of the United Nations Organisation, had pointed the way.

▪ The stark resonance of this solo piano album pointed the way.

prepare the way/ground for sb/sth

▪ A third preliminary task was to prepare the ground for the recruitment of support workers.

▪ Edelstone and other analysts expect this chip will prepare the way for the K6, due out next year.

▪ His staff could prepare the way for this.

▪ In other words, he is preparing the ground for a partition of the province.

▪ It prepared the way for the men who were to prepare the way for the Council.

▪ This helped prepare the ground for Labour's literacy and numeracy hours, which have achieved outstanding success.

▪ With hindsight, one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week's changes.

▪ Yet the volume closes with three sonnets which prepare the way for the intensely symbolic landscapes of Mascarilla y trebol.

rub sb up the wrong way

sb can't have it both ways

see the error of your ways

▪ In fact Brian Moore reckoned it would take only twelve days for the administrators to see the error of their ways.

see your way (clear) to doing sth

▪ Finally he could see his way clear to his goal.

▪ Small builders can not see their way to take on many trainees.

▪ There was just enough light for her to see her way to the bathroom.

see your way clear (to doing sth)

▪ If you can see your way clear, call this number to volunteer.

▪ Finally he could see his way clear to his goal.

shoulder your way through/into etc

▪ Bringing up the rear, Duke shouldered his way into the kitchen.

▪ But wait, some one is shouldering their way through the crowd.

▪ Erlich shouldered his way through the crowd and went after her.

▪ He was curious and, shouldering his way through the crowd, made his way to St Mary Le Bow.

▪ I went in there, shouldered my way through the crowd.

▪ Nicolo shouldered his way through the crowd towards the Princess.

▪ Some surprise managed to shoulder its way into Jenner's turgid writing.

▪ They looked as though they could shoulder their way through solid rock and beat up a regiment of trolls into the bargain.

show the way

▪ Short hair is in again, and Johnny Depp shows the way with a cool new cut.

▪ I mention it here because it and Sirius show the way to the open cluster M50 in Monoceros.

▪ Maturity is important to a leader because leading is not simply showing the way or issuing orders.

▪ No one people owns the map that shows the way.

▪ The Channel tunnel shows the way.

▪ The circle and the square show the way in which the phenomenological and the personal aspects of understanding relate.

▪ Tony Cottee and David Marsh have shown the way.

▪ Trevor-Roper had shown the way in the 1950s: Lawrence Stone emigrated to Princeton to escape his barbs.

smooth the way/path for sth

▪ The company said it has assigned more than 2, 000 employees to help smooth the way for competition.

▪ Well, you could break all the moulds by smoothing the way for Mary O'Rourke to come through as your successor.

stand in sb's way

▪ I wouldn't want to stand in the way of progress.

▪ All that stood in the way of victory was a touch of bad luck.

▪ Even worse, some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts.

▪ Labor-Management Cooperation Many public managers believe that unions are the greatest obstacle standing in the way of entrepreneurial government.

▪ North West side Brigade stand in the way of North Down's success - and they look to be formidable opposition.

▪ Nothing seemed to stand in the way.

▪ Shelford was at full throttle and all that stood in his way to a four pointer was the frail-looking frame of Roebuck.

▪ With luck, fewer barriers may stand in the way.

swing both ways

▪ They sat outside local shopping centers and recorded more than 350 adults as they walked through doors that swung both ways.

take sth the wrong way

▪ Daniel sat in silence, afraid whatever he said would be taken the wrong way.

▪ Don't take this the wrong way, but could I stay at your place tonight?

▪ Don't take this the wrong way, but your driving has really improved.

▪ Don't tell Simon that -- he might take it the wrong way.

▪ No, that's not what I meant. You take everything the wrong way.

▪ Don't take that the wrong way.

▪ Everything you say, he takes it in the wrong way.

▪ Maggie said that I shouldn't make risky jokes with assessors in case they take it the wrong way.

▪ No matter what compliment you pay them, they always take it the wrong way.

▪ Weeb said his father was afraid people might take it the wrong way.

take the easy way out

▪ Too many people take the easy way out of financial trouble by declaring bankruptcy.

▪ But these days, if it looks as if it's going to be nasty, I take the easy way out.

▪ Fishwick, however, does not take the easy way out.

▪ Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day.

▪ This healthy, realistic fear helps the organization resist the temptation to take the easy way out of a problematic situation.

talk your way out of sth

▪ How did Cindy talk her way out of getting a speeding ticket?

▪ He was explaining something to the police with no apparent concern, talking his way out of it.

▪ I could talk my way out of trouble.

▪ Then, Benjamin tries to talk his way out of it by saying that he slowed down at the stop sign.

the Appian Way

the following example/way etc

▪ An illustration of the problems and possible solutions is provided by the following example.

▪ But there are alternative ways to teach and learn, as witnessed by the following examples of classrooms of commitment and conviction.

▪ In each of the following ways tracking hinders rather than helps chil-dren learn: 1.

▪ In general terms, the distinction between education and training can be formulated in the following way.

▪ Look at the following examples and compare your answers with them.

▪ Section 6 has been interpreted in the following ways.

▪ This can be seen in the following examples.

▪ This is known as the package index and is obtained in the following way for each package: 1.

the other way around/round

▪ It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.

▪ It only works the other way round.

▪ Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.

▪ Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.

▪ Right now, that is the other way around.

▪ The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?

▪ What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.

the wrong way up

there's more than one way to skin a cat

thread your way through/into sth etc

▪ Even as I write this, the shared facts of our lives continue to thread their way through our flesh.

▪ He threads his way through narrow alleys where the sun never penetrates.

▪ I watched her thread her way through the crowd, toward the elevator.

▪ Judges have a hard time trying to thread their way through the labyrinthine case law.

▪ Rather, the guitar and drum set seem like obbligato instruments, threading their way through the varied and highly imaginative texture.

▪ The door was held open for him, and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment.

▪ This time she threaded her way through the high peaks of the Rockies without incident.

▪ We thread our way through the cemetery, misquoting or humming quietly and almost comforted.

wend your way

▪ We watched the train wend its way through the mountain pass.

▪ As the spectators began to wend their way home, the emotions of some were mixed.

▪ Following an ancient rhythm people are wending their way home before the light fails.

▪ From there I was going to hitch a ride on a freight train and wend my way back east.

▪ John and I would wend our way into Westwood Village to window-shop or see a movie or buy groceries.

▪ Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.

▪ The sound of automobiles wending their way along the road far below does not reach me.

▪ This was the last mill, the brook now wending its way towards the Severn at Minsterworth.

▪ We wend our way through the most crowded portion.

where there's a will there's a way

wing its/their way

▪ His resignation was winging its way to Sheppards yesterday afternoon.

▪ If it slips then, as it probably will, the Hingston fortune will wing its way elsewhere.

▪ Out of a group of trees near by a rook flew, winging its way leisurely across the Park towards him.

▪ Photographs had winged their way across, and presents at Christmas and Easter, with Mammy's birthday a speciality.

▪ Readers' original gardening tips Another batch of £50 cash prizes are winging their way to this month's top tipsters.

▪ Small but dangerously exciting trickles of pleasure were still winging their way through her virtually defenceless body.

▪ Within seventy minutes each plane has been unloaded, reloaded and winging its way to destination cities.

work your way through school/college/university etc

▪ He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.

work your way to/through etc sth

▪ And national campaign finance reform began to work its way through the U. S. Congress.

▪ For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda, more administration and finance today than scientific exploration.

▪ He would stand in the gents' cubicle and work his way through the fantasy, peeing in synchronization with the finale.

▪ I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy.

▪ Magistrates are working their way through questioning all the officers who participated in the raid, beginning with the 13 commanders.

▪ The engine started to sound rough, but she thought it would work its way through and ignored it.

▪ Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.

▪ We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.

worm (your way) into/through etc sth

▪ But you can bring worms into your house, too, and make your kitchen scraps disappear.

▪ Clive felt delicate feelers worming through his mind, draining his pain, his fear.

▪ Jess wormed through the crush, at last emerging into daylight.

▪ Or perhaps you've an idea that you might worm your way into my affections, is that it?

worm your way into sb's affections/heart/confidence etc

worm your way out of (doing) sth

▪ Somehow Ben wormed his way out of mowing the lawn.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Are you sure this is the way?

▪ Are you sure we're going the right way? I don't remember seeing that church before.

▪ Do you think you can find the way home by yourself?

▪ I'll show you the way we calculate the figures.

▪ I could tell by the way he looked at me that he was annoyed.

▪ I don't recognize this part of town - we must have come the wrong way.

▪ I just love the way she laughs.

▪ I think this is the quickest way into town.

▪ I think you're going about this in completely the wrong way.

▪ I tried every way I could to make the child go to bed, but she refused.

▪ Is there any way of controlling the heating in here?

▪ Is this the way to Grand Central Station?

▪ It is important to consider which way the house faces, as that determines how much sun it gets.

▪ Jill's office is that way.

▪ Losing a job affects different people in different ways.

▪ Ottumwa? That's quite a ways from here, isn't it?

▪ The argument was a terrible way to end a wonderful week.

▪ The bear went that way - you can see its tracks in the snow.

▪ The government does not believe that this approach is the right way to deal with the problem.

▪ The only way to lose weight is to eat less.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ By phrasing questions in different ways, inconsistencies are exposed without the need for having a detailed knowledge of a particular technique.

▪ Council officers in Darlington have looked at ways of supporting the campaign.

▪ He walked all the way to Upper Street, near the bus-stops, before he found a free phonebox.

▪ Now that his marriage has broken down there is no way round this problem.

▪ On the way home I was thinking about the week.

▪ Women there have abortions again and again because it is the only way they can limit their family size.

▪ You will find a tiny amount will go a long way.

II.adverb