in a family way
以家庭的方式,以家庭方式,以家庭方式进行,以家庭的形式
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Definitions
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- : manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- : characteristic or habitual manner: Her way is to work quietly and never complain.
- : a method, plan, or means for attaining a goal: to find a way to reduce costs.
- : a respect or particular: The plan is defective in several ways.
- : a direction or vicinity: Look this way. We're having a drought out our way.
- : passage or progress on a course: to make one's way on foot; to lead the way.
- : Often ways . distance: They've come a long way.
- : a path or course leading from one place to another: What's the shortest way to town?
- : British. an old Roman or pre-Roman road: Icknield Way.a minor street in a town: He lives in Stepney Way.
- : a road, route, passage, or channel: highway; waterway; doorway.
- : Law. a right of way.
- : any line of passage or travel, used or available: to blaze a way through dense woods.
- : space for passing or advancing: to clear a way through the crowd.
- : Often ways . a habit or custom: The grandmother lived by the ways of the old country.
- : course or mode of procedure that one chooses or wills: They had to do it my way.
- : condition, as to health, prosperity, or the like: to be in a bad way.
- : range or extent of experience or notice: the best device that ever came in my way.
- : a course of life, action, or experience: The way of transgressors is hard.
- : Informal. business: to be in the haberdashery way.
- : Nautical. ways, two or more ground ways down which a hull slides in being launched.movement or passage through the water.
- : Machinery. a longitudinal strip, as in a planer, guiding a moving part along a surface.
Phrases
- way the wind blows, which
- way to go
- all the way
- by the way
- by way of
- can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
- come a long way
- come one's way
- cut both ways
- downhill all the way
- every which way
- feel one's way
- find one's way
- from way back
- get one's way
- give way
- go all the way
- go a long way toward
- go one's way
- go out of one's way
- go the way of all flesh
- hard way
- have a way with
- have it both ways
- have one's way with
- in a bad way
- in a big way
- in a way
- in one's way
- in the family way
- in the way
- in the worst way
- know all the answers (one's way around)
- laugh all the way to the bank
- lead the way
- look the other way
- make one's way
- make way
- mend one's ways
- more than one way to skin a cat
- not built that way
- no two ways about it
- no way
- one way or another
- on one's way
- on the way
- on the way out
- other way round
- out of the way
- parting of the ways
- pave the way
- pay one's way
- pick one's way
- put in the way of
- right of way
- rub the wrong way
- see one's way to
- set in one's ways
- show the way
- take the wrong way
- that's how (the way) the ball bounces
- under way
- wend one's way
- work one's way
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Jozy Altidore is 31, and Josh Sargent, who turns 21 this month, is finding his way at Germany’s Werder Bremen.
“In many ways, I don’t want to say I expected it, but I think from the league’s perspective or players’, I think we knew it wasn’t going to go perfectly,” defenseman John Carlson said.
It’s changed me only in the way that it’s made me a better person.
You just stay attached when you’re trying to find your way, and that’s why I was happy.
Rapid advances in crash-detection technology, like in some Garmin computers and Specialized’s ANGI helmet sensor, might pave the way for crowdsourcing data from real-life crashes.
It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Empire will be hate-watched and may set off some conversations on its way from fading from our minds.
I think if you keep trying to do things the same way it becomes diminishing returns.
Professor Penelope Leach told The Daily Beast it was ludicrous to monitor young children in that way.
It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.
"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
In this way bundles of the plants are easily made, and in most cases these can be readily carried about.
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.