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way
noun
a familiar neighbourhood; your home territory US- — Washington Post Magazine, p. 11, 17 May 1987: “Say wha?”
- — Richard McAlister, Rapper’s Handbook, 1990
▶ in a big way
to an extreme US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, Fall 1987
▶ on the way out
of a person, approaching retirement or likely to be dismissed; of a thing, coming to the end of its useful existence UK, 1961- “Blair on the way out”. (Don’t Believe It). — New Statesman, 1 July 2002
▶ that’s the way (something does something)
that’s how things turn out US
Used in a formulaic construction of “that”s the way the NOUN VERBs’.- The soldiers coined “That’s the way the ball bounces,” meaning what was ordained to be. — East Liverpool (Ohio) Review, 28 December 1952
- But that’s the way the cookie crumbles. — Independent Record (Helena, Montana), 27 November 1955
- One of the children had “That’s the way the mop flops.” — Progress (Clearfield, Pennsylvania), 5 March 1956
- — San Francisco Examiner, p. 21, 12 December 1961: “Colloquialisms for your murgatroid handcuffs”
▶ the other way
diverging from a stated condition UK, 1858- Instead of being brought in line, I went very much the other way. — William Wright, Born That Way, p. 109, 1999
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