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A little ways

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1568, OED Evaluation: Colloq (chiefly N. Amer.)

A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.

ExampleMeaning
On this side, was the kitchen, the regular kitchen for the home. And you went in a door just inside the back-door. You went in there, maybe not just inside but just up a little ways, you went in there into the kitchen, and that was a great big kitchen, and it had a table sitting in the centre of the floor ...
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: That's not the pictures I wanted. I wanted- I wanted to show you the- the ah, Jacobs-house. And it was just in a little ways, ah- Interviewer: From Dave-Hill's there. Speaker: Just- just in from the road. Ah, you can see some dead elms, back in there. Where that's where the house was.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... as soon as you get closer to the volcano, the vegetation was much more like a tropical jungle, it was, it was wild, it was so wild to see. Interviewer 2: Probably animals too. Speaker: Ah, we didn 't, like yeah we didn 't see anything that time but we drove through this thing a little ways until I couldn 't do it anymore because of the car, but um, it was, it was crazy.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
Um, and then my- my mom's parents owned a cottage on Kinesis-Lake which was- it's about a two-hour drive. It's passed Halliburton, a little ways there. Um, and so we both had- Kinesis generally we'd go to for like a week or-something, when we're all had vacation time.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
... I remember that area- that general area where we were behind M-C-T-V was exactly where my dad worked. But when I would meet him after work I'd meet him just a little ways up at the old- old train station at ah- back there, that was where the car- car-shop actually was.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Okay. Do you um remember ah at work at any time when it's someone else from another department (inc) or someone being severely injured or ah any emergency procedures (inc) or? Speaker: Well, stepping back a little ways, there was the- there was an instance. I worked at the MacIntyre ah 'til January of eighty, and just after I left, there was a worker that I used to work with had his arm torn off.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Were you born in New-Liskeard? Speaker: I was born in Cane-Township down here. Just- Interviewer: Cane-Township. Speaker: Yeah, just a little ways from here. ... 'Bout four-miles- three or four-miles from here.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
... I- I- I haven't moved very far. As a matter of fact, most of my life is on this street. ... One-Twenty-Two-Burnside- ... And up- a little ways up the street on Burnside-Drive, there was a little house. There's no longer there that I- I grew up in, so most of my life has been on this street ...
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
I can remember um- and there was always diapers right? 'Cause there was always a baby so some days she would have to finish drying them in the- in the kitchen dining room area so that she would have lines running across the top of the- of the room. A little ways down from the ceiling and have several dozen diapers hanging all over the place ...
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
But they had great meals wherever you went. And French-fried-potatoes and- ... Right across the street in the motel in Acapulco, you'd walk across the street a little ways and- and you're right at home there. Just like you're eating at home. A very relaxed atmosphere. And the prices were very reasonable.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
And I developed agoraphobia at one point in my life. I was confined to my apartment. I had a hard time to- at night I could go out a little ways further. But during the day I couldn't even go to my mailbox. I lived like that for quite a few years.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
... there wasn't very many cars in Haliburton. Ah I can't even remember how many there were. ... Yes yes there might have been three or four that I know of. So that's what- we thought that was quite a little ways to town. So we didn't come to town that much. And when we did, my dad would just hook up the sleighs and the- and they horses and ah- we only had one horse- and that's- that's a good memory I have.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
... this is late fall. This is after the maples have turned. So it's probably late October and it's probably up around nineteen-sixty so I would be about nine and- and when your a little ways up that side hill, there is the farm house, there's the barn, you could see all the way, one mile to Maple-Lake.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
ExampleMeaning
So my father went and the doctor says, "oh it's only her second one it'll take quite a while." ... "Have a cup of tea." So he sat there and talked had a tea and then just walked up the r- road a little ways back to their house, and by time they got back, the baby was there alive and kicking.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.