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Way Idioms

If you 'pave the way' it means to make progress easier.

If you are 'set in your ways' , you resist any changes.

If you climb through the ranks of a company and reach a high position, you have 'worked your way to the top'.

If you want to buy something for $200 and the person wants you to pay $300, you can agree to 'meet halfway' and pay $250.

If you speak well (and usually persuasively), you have 'a way with words'.

If you stop somebody from doing something, you 'stand in their way'.

Sometimes discussions don't stay on the subject and go 'way off' course.

If you make a lot of effort and inconvenience yourself to help somebody, you 'go out of your way' to help them.

Some people want both to work less and to earn more money. They want to 'have it both ways'.

If you want to avoid somebody, you 'keep out of their way'.

If you change the order of two things, you put them 'the other way round'.

'To my way of thinking' means 'in my opinion'.

If you have no opinion between two choices, you don't mind 'either way'.

'On the way' means that it is coming.

If things have changed a lot, they have 'come a long way'.

When you give some information as incidental to the main conversation, you can introduce it by saying 'by the way'.