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Across the way

Parf of speech: Phrase, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: NA

A track prepared or available for travelling along; a road, street, lane, or path. Now esp. in phrases like beside, over, across the way, the other side (of) the way, to cross the way, etc.

ExampleMeaning
Across the way was this great tract of property that went right down almost to Dundas-Street in fact the rectory is probably close to one hundred, the parish hall is getting on the same, I-guess.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
I- I was born here in a house just across the way.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
Mother sent us back and said that you go across to the one, the white house across the way to the store.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
Apparently friends of ours here in Toronto- they were on their honeymoon and we didn 't even know they 'd gotten married, and here, they bumped into them and as they say, they- you stand on the square long enough, you 'll meet somebody that you know, and they met them and- and apparently their hotel was across the way from ours.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
Well, yeah, the people whose farm we were on and then there was another couple s-- and their child staying across the way and yeah, yeah, you get to, you-know, chat and everything. It 's- it 's nice.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
So it's kind-of- I got to be really close friends with him and then also there's another little girl who lived ah not exactly across but across the way and ah apparently when we first met each other, she was totally French, totally totally French, and I was completely English and so when we ended up um meeting up with each other, she was speaking French to me and I was speaking English to her, and we understood each other.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
They had to go over by boat to where she lived across the way.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
Well, he was but anyway, it turned out okay because- then we went across the way to another pub and ah the guy there h-- was new and- and didn't know any of the background that Tom could relate to.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
Um, I also had a lot of British, because they came over when Kidd-Creek opened. So my next door across the way was the head of the lab at Kidd-Creek and so on and Percy-Blithely was one of the head miners and-so-on, and so I had a lot of British right around here too.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street
ExampleMeaning
Yeah. This is Carl-Billingsley's home, at one time, and Jack-Lorde's home at another time. That's across the way.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street