| 单词 | in the way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin the (also that) way (b) in the (also that) way: pregnant. Also occasionally in a way. Cf. earlier in the (also a) family way at family n. and adj. Phrases 3b. to put in the way: to make pregnant. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] greatc1175 with childc1175 with childc1300 baggeda1400 bounda1400 pregnant?a1425 quicka1450 greaterc1480 heavyc1480 teeming1530 great-bellied1533 big1535 boundenc1540 impregnate1540 great-wombeda1550 young with child1566 gravid1598 pregnate1598 pagled1599 enceinte1602 child-great1605 conceived1637 big-bellieda1646 brooding1667 in the (also a) family way1688 in the (also that) way1741 undelivered1799 ensient1818 enwombeda1822 in a delicate condition1827 gestant1851 in pod1890 up the (also a) pole1918 in a particular condition1922 preg?1927 in the spud line1937 up the spout1937 preggy1938 up the stick1941 preggers1942 in pig1945 primigravid1949 preggo1951 in a certain condition1958 gestating1961 up the creek1961 in the (pudding) cluba1966 gravidated- the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [verb (transitive)] geta1375 to beget with childa1393 impregn?c1550 season1555 enwomb1590 knock1598 with-child1605 fill1607 fertilitate1638 ingravidate1642 impregnate1646 improlificate1646 prolificate1650 pregnant1660 pregnate1686 fecundate1721 fecundify1736 to knock up1813 to put in the family way1898 inseminate1923 to get or put (someone) in the (pudding) club1936 stork1936 to put in the way1960 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 228 [She] told me..that the Way I was in, made her love me better and better. 1817 J. Austen Let. 23 Mar. (1995) 337 Mrs Clement too is in that way again. I am quite tired of so many Children. 1831 Mrs. Arbuthnot Let. 18 Feb. in C. Arbuthnot Corr. (1941) 140 Young Ly. C. is not in a way; the old housekeeper wrote to her something about it, & she wrote back word, ‘God's will be done.’ 1867 Queen Victoria Let. 25 Oct. in Your Dear Letter (1971) 155 Dearest child, why did you not tell me, your own mother, when you first began being in that way? 1906 W. M. Rossetti Some Reminisc. I. v. 49 And would ye belave it, Mr. Wood, she's in that way again! 1960 Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 215 They'd both eloped... ‘I'll bet he put her in the way’. 1980 J. Rose Elizabeth Fry iii. 44 She suspected herself of being pregnant, ‘in the way’ as she called it. in the (also one's) way e. Phrases with in, esp. in the (also one's) way, in a way.See also senses A. 17a(b), A. 20, A. 21, A. 25b, A. 26, and Phrases 6c, Phrases 7h. extracted from wayn.1int.1ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > on or in the course of a journey [phrase] in the (also one's) wayOE by the wayOE by wayOE on (also upon) the (also one's) wayOE in the mean way1569 en route1779 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > on or in the course of a journey [phrase] > so as to be met or observed wayOE OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §40. 252 Ðin modor gewiteð of weorulde þurh scondlicne deað & unarlicne, & heo ligeð unbebyrged in wege fuglum to mete & wildeorum. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xiii. 128 Hit gelamp sume dæge, þa þa se broðor on þone weg ferde to Benedictes mynstre, þæt oþer wegferend hine sylfne to him geþeodde, se bær mid him mettas to þicgenne in þam wege. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13373 In his wæiȝe [c1300 Otho weye] þat he funde al he hit aqualde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13361 Wo wæs heom iboren þa i þan weie [c1300 Otho weye] heom weoren biuoren. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 1007 (MED) Horn dude him in þe weie On a god Galeie. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 259 At Felice he tok his leue þo, & in his way he goþ apliȝt. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xlv. 24 Ne wraþe ȝe in þe way [L. in via]. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. l. 47 (MED) We wenten þus in þe weye wordyng togyderes. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 9 (MED) He stervet yn þe way. 1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. D.ivv There chaunced in my way a house hereby To fyre which is burned pyteously. 1561 H. Bennet tr. P. Melanchthon Hyst. Lyfe & Actes M. Luther in Famous & Godly Hist. Three Reformers sig. E.viiv After Luther had taken hys leaue of the Emperour, diuers Spaniards scorned & scoffed the holy man in his way to his lodging. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1592) 1012 Sinne is not long in comming, nor quickly gon, vnlesse God stop vs, as he mette Balaam in his way. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Fiij Like one that spies an adder, Wreath'd vp in fatall folds iust in his way . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 11 Like Hedg-hogs, which Lye tumbling in my bare-foote way . View more context for this quotation 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre ii. 127 But they of Stratus, aware of this, whilest they were yet in their way..placed diuers Ambushes not farre from the Citie. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 67 Going from St. Gillians to Abergaueny in the way to Mountgomery Castle. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 277. ⁋11 If you please to call at my House in your Way to the City. 1721 E. Ward Merry Trav. (1729) i. 35 Resolving to..moisten well our dusty Clay, At the next Alehouse in our Way. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. i. 8 I had not got far when I met one of these Creatures full in my way, and coming up directly to me. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. cvi. 351 In the afternoon [she] was at Islington church, in her way home. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §264 The master of the floating light saw the buoy in his way to Plymouth. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 246 The churches were the best lions we met with in our way. 1822 M. A. Kelty Osmond I. 186 A heavy foreboding made her linger in her way to her own apartment. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlii. 25 She had gained a little wooden bridge, which..led into a meadow in her way. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise 188 Nor yet was he Alone, as well might be that day Since a fair town was in his way. 1914 Times of India 4 Dec. 9/3 The assassin..stabbed and hacked every man he met in his way till he finally reached the river bank. (b) to walk (also travel) in the way with, etc.: to accompany on a journey; (more generally) to associate with. Also † to be in the way mid. Usually with reference to moral conduct or a person's spiritual journey through life (cf. sense A. 3).Chiefly with biblical allusion, esp. to Proverbs 1:15. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] mingc1275 company1387 joinc1390 meddlec1390 herd?a1400 fellowshipc1430 enfellowship1470 to step in1474 accompany?1490 yoke?a1513 to keep with ——c1515 conjoin1532 wag1550 frequent1577 encroach1579 consort1588 sort1595 commerce1596 troop1597 converse1598 to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598 to enter common1604 atone1611 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 minglea1616 consociate1638 associate1644 corrive1647 co-unite1650 walk1650 cohere1651 engage1657 mix1667 accustom1670 to make one1711 coalite1735 commerciate1740 to have nothing to say to (also with)1780 gang?1791 companion1792 mess1795 matea1832 comrade1865 to go around1904 to throw in with1906 to get down1975 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or be companions [verb (intransitive)] accompany?1490 assist1553 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 to go partners1716 to draw up1723 to shake together1861 to pal up (also around, out, etc.)1889 society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225 mella1300 fellowshipa1382 companya1400 accompany1461 to keep company (with)1502 encompanya1513 to keep (a person) company1517 to take repast1517 assist1553 to take up with1570 rempare1581 to go along with1588 amate1590 bear1590 to fall in1593 consort1598 second1600 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 comitate1632 associate1644 enhaunt1658 join1713 assort1823 sit1828 companionize1870 to take tea with1888 to knock about with1915 tote1977 fere- OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. v. 25 Dum es in uia cum eo : miððy bist in uoeg mið him. 1582 T. Bentley Fift Lampe Virginitie 35 Keepe me, O Lord, from the wicked companie of vngodlie men, and when they shall entise me, let me not walke in the way with them. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. i. 15 My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them. View more context for this quotation 1670 C. Phelpes Happy Merchandise 43 Sinners intice us to cast in our lot amongst them, and to walk in the way with them; to run with them to the same excess of riot. a1751 F. Carmichael Serm. Several Important Subj. (1753) v. 191 When sinners entice thee, consent thou not, walk not thou in the way with them. 1781 J. Cave Epist. Inhabitants Gillingham v. 89 Blessed is the Man whole Strength is in the Lord, (whose Life is hid with Christ in God) and whose Heart travelleth in the Way with them. 1832 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Jan. 19 That man is running the road to destruction, and placing his immortal soul in peril; we must not walk in the way with him, lest evil befall us. 1885 Youth's Compan. 9 Apr. 142/1 He submitted to the truth, received the life, and walked in the way, with a martyr's spirit..until he heard the call. 1917 Constructive Q. 5 55 Walk in the way with all peoples, O sons of peace, sons of the sole Catholica. 2012 Free Press (Kinston, N. Carolina) 14 Apr. 7/4 So there is work to be done as we walk in the way with Jesus. (c) With infinitive. Likely to (do or achieve something), having a good chance of (doing or attaining something). Cf. Phrases 2f(a). Now rare. ΚΠ a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 1212 (MED) Þou art yn weye to peyne be broght. 1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 352/1 Diverse Customers..standen surcharged, and in weie to be surcharged in hire accomptes. 1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man iv. f. 55v He is in the way to rebel again his maker & most mercifull lorde. 1542 N. Vyllagon Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harleian Misc. (1808) I. 232 I purpose, as sone as my dysease is paste, to put me in waye with all dylygence to se you ryght soone. 1615 J. Chamberlain Let. 15 June (1939) I. 602 The bishop of Winchester is in the way to be Lord Privie Seale. 1645 True Relation Boy entertained by Devill 3 He doubted not but he should find a Master for him, and such employment as would put him in the way to gaine a compleat estate. 1710 W. Oldisworth Dial. Timothy & Philatheus II. 88 If once we could put him in the Way to punish all the False Teachers in the Nation, 'twould be the pretty'st Contrivance for the Good of the Church that has been yet thought of. 1783 G. Washington Let. 15 Aug. in Writings (1938) 27 103 It is totally out of my power to render her any Service in the collectn. of her debts but wish to put her in the way to obtain justice. a1794 C. Phillips Mem. (1797) i. 5 Thus descended, it may be supposed I was in the way to receive religious instruction from my infancy. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. ix. 179 Nurse Rooke..was delighted to be in the way to let you in. View more context for this quotation 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. iv. 67 Why did you not tarry at Brussels, then, with the Duke of Burgundy? He would put you in the way to have your bones broken every day. 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xiv I am getting on a little in the world, and am in the way to earn a little money. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 268 He ain't like to be in a way to tell ye much to-night. 1934 Boys' Life Apr. 38/3 You said you might put me in the way to earn that sum. 1962 S. Ennis tr. P. Sayers Old Woman's Refl. xviii. 130 It's often we were in a way to go with fear and fright, because when winter came it wasn't its habit to come gentle and kind. (d) In such a position, or of such a nature, as to obstruct, impede, or be an annoyance. (i) to be (also get, stand, etc.) in one's way, to be (also get, stand, etc.) in the way of (a person or thing). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (intransitive)] hinderc1386 to be (also get, stand, etc.) in one's way1481 to trump in (one's) way1570 to put in one's spoke1580 to put a spoke in one's wheel1583 to be (also get, stand, etc.) in the waya1750 snag1833 to cramp one's style1917 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 62 Who so alleway sayth trouth. shal fynde many lettyngis in his way. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 159 Welth, wardly gloir and riche array Ar all bot thornis laid in thy way. 1564 Briefe Exam. B iij Ye must..take heede, lest ye stande in your owne way. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 493 He thwarted some of them & stood in their way. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt i. 3 To throw some confounded rub in the way. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 28 Thus, then, you go off with eclat, provided nothing is in your horse's way, and if there is,..he will probably leap over it. 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. iii. 183 [His] egotism..sacrificed his best friends and first duties, if they stood in its way. 1805 R. E. Scott Elem. Intellect. Philos. App. i. 427 The abstractness of some mathematical conceptions has doubtless thrown considerable difficulties in the way of the learner. 1828 M. T. Sadler Ireland xiv. 342 The financial obstacles in the way of a free trade in corn. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 329 The smaller girls managed to be in every body's way, and were pushed about accordingly. 1885 Manch. Examiner 11 June 4/7 The Liberal party will be bound in honour to throw no factious obstacles in their way. 1887 S. Baring-Gould Gaverocks II. xxiii. 17 His pride stood in the way of success. 1901 Rec. Christian Work Dec. 934 A soul merchant, unhesitatingly sacrificing the spiritual interests of all around him, if they stand in the way of his bargaining. 1934 P. Hamilton Plains of Cement xxix. 249 He had chosen to come inside the bar with her this morning, and had been swanking about his Christmas presents and getting in her way for fully half an hour. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic viii. 189 The free jazzers never allowed the song to get in the way of the music. 2000 B. Segal Whisper Awhile 59 A million men with glorious aeroplanes and tanks and gold braid and scarlet tabs stood behind me; let no one stand in my way. (ii) to be (also get, stand, etc.) in the way (without possessive). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hinder [verb (intransitive)] hinderc1386 to be (also get, stand, etc.) in one's way1481 to trump in (one's) way1570 to put in one's spoke1580 to put a spoke in one's wheel1583 to be (also get, stand, etc.) in the waya1750 snag1833 to cramp one's style1917 a1750 Ld. Dartmouth in O. Airy Burnet's Hist. Own Time (1900) II. 251 (note) King Charles gave him [Godolphin] a short character when he was page,..of being never in the way, nor out of the way. 1787 J. Wesley Let. 7 Sept. (1931) VIII. 7 But there is a mountain that stands in the way: and how you will get over it I know not: I mean pride. 1866 J. S. Le Fanu All in Dark xxxv He would have been in the way—unutterably de trop. 1894 Outing 24 442/2 I..had stowed my guncase and grip where they would be least in the way. 1922 School Rev. Sept. 528 The difficulties in the way are by no means few or easily superable. 1993 Orange Coast Nov. 47/1 She's really in the way. I could do the stuff four times faster if she'd get the hell out of the way. 2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Feb. iv. 6/4 Don't get anal over a piece of wood; cut it off if it gets in the way. (e) figurative. (i) to come (also fall, lie, etc.) in one's way: to be met with in the course of one's experience. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > fall to one shootc1175 happen1477 to come in one's way1533 land1679 to come a person's waya1816 to drop into the lap of1962 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [phrase] > gain (so much) to come in one's way1533 1533 T. More Apologye xxvi. f. 161v The towchyng of thys mater is no parte of my prynncypall entent, but happeneth as an incydent to fall in my waye. 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 171 It is not possible for any thynge to come in my waye nowe from henseforthe, so great, that may greue my harte, or cause me to be sad. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 28 Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. View more context for this quotation a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 37 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Under it [sc. his mantle] he may cleanly convey any fit pillage that commeth handsomly in his way. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §44 As for riches, if they fall in my way, I refuse them not. 1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 193 The General Officers of Armies,..the publick Ministers..(that have fallen in my way) being generally subject to it [sc. the Gout] in one degree or other. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xii It comes in my way here to retaliate to him. 1742 London Mag. June 300/2 My Method of treating these sort of Sparks when they fall in my Way. 1767 A. Murphy School for Guardians iii. 45 Since difficulties come in my way, genius must surmount them. 1828 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather 1st Ser. II. xi. 213 A warrant empowering them to take all Portuguese vessels which should come in their way. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xxxi. 279 These things he knew nothing of; they had not come in his way. 1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. ii. 19 Every actor whom it had come in my way to know..was a poor devil. 1915 N.Y. Times Curr. Hist. 2 348/2 Educated solely by his own efforts on stray newspapers and books which fell in his way in his schoolless village. 1948 M. K. Gandhi in Times of India 12 Feb. 1/3 I am not aching for martyrdom, but if it comes in my way in the prosecution of what I consider to be the supreme duty in defense of the faith I shall have earned it. (ii) to throw (also lay, put, etc.) in (a person's) way: to bring within a person's experience; to make available or susceptible to. ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xviii. 80/2 These two temptations which are cast in our way are so common, that euery of vs feeleth himselfe to haue neede to bee armed against it. 1621 R. Johnson Way to Glory 44 Let vs not with Atalanta bee allured out of the way, by the golden Apples..which the World, or our owne concupiscence throwes in our way. a1639 H. Wotton Philos. Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 317 But before I lanch from the shoars, let me resolve a main question which may be cast in my way. a1662 B. Duppa Holy Rules & Helps Devotion (1674) i. 83 The Imagination..casting Thoughts in our way, and forcing the Understanding to reflect upon them. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 107 When one man alters the opinion of another by throwing a book, proper for that purpose, in his way. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 154 We have now nothing to live on but Seal, and what Providence throws in our Way. 1763 W. Cowper in R. Southey Life & Wks. Cowper (1835) I. 163 My friends must excuse me, if I write to none but those who lay it fairly in my way to do so. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 18 It might seem as if she had purposely thrown herself in his way again. View more context for this quotation 1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year II. vii. 189 They say he has a cousin who is one of the officers to the Sheriff of Middlesex, and puts a good many little things in his way! 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 12 Her body threw no difficulties in her way: the wash-and-go drip-dry hair, the candid orbits that needed only the mildest of emphases. ΚΠ 1617 J. Chamberlain in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 43 It [sc. his having a son] may be a hundred thousand pounds in his way, if his father keep his word. 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 46 Though it might have been Thousands in my Way had I continued my Business. 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Subj. for Painters i. (note) Which will be a benefit ticket in Sir William's way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > within range or reach within reachc1515 within one's strokea1533 in the (also one's) way1534 within power1548 under the dint of1577 in(to), within, out of shot1635 within arm's reacha1652 within one's force1680 within touch1753 in touch1854 within wind of1865 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 108 I require that your hous may be open for me at all tymes, whether thou be in the way, or out of the way. 1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. A.ijv If the good man and wyfe be not in the way, be procureth of the children or seruants a fleece of wool. 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Gggg2v/2 To be in the way, or in a readiness, se tenir pret, ne pas s' ecarter. 1696 Tryal & Condemnation Sir W. Parkyns 8 I did it as soon as I could: The Keeper was not always in the way. It was Execution day, and he was not at home that day. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 1 When your Master or Lady call a Servant by Name, if that Servant be not in the Way, none of you are to answer. c1760 R. Challoner in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) II. xxiv. 28 We will spend our evenings..at our own lodgings, so that we may..be in the way for such as shall come for Instructions. 1781 R. Pulteney Gen. View Writings Linnæus xxix. 410 When the Sub-Rectour was not in the way, to heare me. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xviii. 352 I came here to-day intending to rehearse it with Edmund..but he is not in the way . View more context for this quotation 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. viii. 122 In order that..he might take care to be in the way at the time. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxix I'm glad, too, to see you here. One feels safer when you're in the way. 1897 R. N. Bain tr. M. Jókai Pretty Michal (ed. 2) xxx. 229 He himself, however, had not been in the way when beauty was being served out. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > temporary state of mind, mood > [adverb] in the vein1577 in the (also one's) way1678 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [adverb] > in a fit mood in the vein1577 in the (also one's) way1678 1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) xvi. 162 A sort of people never in the way [Fr. prests], never pleas'd with any thing. 1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair i. i. 1 Your solid Fop is a better Man; he'll be Diligent and Fawning, always in the way. 1856 J. Ballantine Poems 108 He is aye in the way for a crack. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [phrase] on (also upon) righteOE by (good, etc.) rightc1330 to rightsc1330 well and truly1348 of very (due) right?a1366 to righta1382 at right1487 in one's way1691 1691 Revol. New Eng. Justified in Andros Tracts (1868) I. 112 Answer was made by the Deponent, that if we [sc. the Watch] should kill them [sc. suspicious persons resisting arrest], we were in our way, then Mr. Randolph..said, you are in the way to be hanged. (i) in my (his, etc.) way: well suited to one's tastes, abilities, or purpose; = in one's line at line n.2 28b. Chiefly in negative context. Cf. Phrases 2h(a)(iv). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suitable or appropriate [phrase] > to a person in my (his, etc.) way1740 in (or out of) one's line1838 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber 121 I thought any thing, naturally written, ought to be in every one's Way that pretended to be an Actor. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 13 Quoting from a dead language looks a little like skulking, and that's not at all in my way, as you know. 1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 2 May 232/1 One..is made angry by my modestly suggesting the possibility of Paris time being more in their way. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xiv. 167 I knew it [sc. an agricultural meeting] wasn't much in his way. 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 64 Research was not in his way. 1906 Guardian 15 Dec. 7/1 Soldiers are not much in my way, and my military signatures are few. (j) (for) once in a way: on this occasion, if on no other; for once; (also in weaker sense) rarely, exceptionally; once in a while.Apparently an alteration of the earlier once and away at once adv., conj., adj., and n. Phrases 6. Cf. also once in a while at once adv., conj., adj., and n. Phrases 9. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > infrequently or it rarely happens [phrase] it is seldom that1390 it is seldom when1600 (for) once in a way1759 blue moon1821 the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] seldom-whenc888 seldomc897 seld-whenc897 seldoma1000 seldc1000 seldom-timec1386 seld-timec1386 seld-whilea1387 seld-where1390 thinc1405 rare?1440 sendle?a1500 daintilya1513 thinlyc1545 rarely1546 once in a moon1547 out-takingly1549 seldomly1549 for once and away1583 sparingly1590 scarce1596 unfrequently1646 unoften1654 infrequently1673 once in a while1765 sporadically1765 sparselya1871 seldom-while1876 (for) once in a way1891 1759 Life & Real Adventures Hamilton Murray I. xiii. 158 Avast! a little there, brother's, avast! do take the advice of a seamen [sic] for once in a way. 1842 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers (ed. 2) 302 I must beg indulgence once in a way, to engage myself in a dry and somewhat tedious discussion. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. v. 100 Now, I like this kind of thing once in a way. 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth liii They agreed to take a holiday for once in a way. 1891 J. M. Dixon Dict. Idiomatic Eng. Phrases 230 Once in a way, sometimes; at long intervals; on rare occasions. 1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude ii. 76 Well, then, a little truth for once in a way! 1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) i, in Too True to be Good 197 I really think, father, you might for once in a way take some slight interest in the family. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 216 Once in a way.., for a laugh, he'd take off his apron, fold it neatly over a chair, undo his flies and haul the tosser out. (k) Originally U.S. to be set (also stuck) in one's ways: to have had the same habits or views for a long time; to be unsusceptible or resistant to change. ΚΠ 1856 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 13 Feb. He cannot, of course, be argued out of his opinion—he is too aged and set in his ways. 1895 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 28 Aug. 5/1 A mother too set in her ways to permit any innovations in housekeeping methods. 1921 S. Kaye-Smith Joanna Godden i. 32 Now the folks around here, they're middling sensible, but..they're stuck in their ways. 1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding ii. 43 He was a widowman, for her mother had died the very day that she was born—and, as a widowman, set in his ways. 2014 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. 16/1 Back in the Eighties someone explained to me that emails were on the way... ‘No!’ I protested... ‘I'm too stuck in my ways to learn something new.’ in the way ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > temporary state of mind, mood > [adverb] in the vein1577 in the (also one's) way1678 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [adverb] > in a fit mood in the vein1577 in the (also one's) way1678 1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) xvi. 162 A sort of people never in the way [Fr. prests], never pleas'd with any thing. 1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair i. i. 1 Your solid Fop is a better Man; he'll be Diligent and Fawning, always in the way. 1856 J. Ballantine Poems 108 He is aye in the way for a crack. < as lemmas |
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