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42 PHRASE You use in no way or not in any way to emphasize that a statement is not at all true. [EMPHASIS ] □  A spokesman insisted the two events were 'in no way related'.

43 PHRASE If you say that something is true in a way , you mean that although it is not completely true, it is true to a limited extent or in certain respects. You use in a way to reduce the force of a statement. [VAGUENESS ] □  In a way, I suppose I'm frightened of failing. □  It made things very unpleasant in a way.

44 PHRASE If you say that someone gets in the way or is in the way , you are annoyed because their presence or their actions stop you doing something properly. □  'We wouldn't get in the way,' Suzanne promised. 'We'd just stand quietly in a corner.'

45 PHRASE To get in the way of something means to make it difficult for it to happen, continue, or be appreciated properly. □ [+ of ] She had a job which never got in the way of her leisure interests.

46 PHRASE If you know your way around a particular subject, system, or job, or if you know your way about it, you know all the procedures and facts about it. □  He knows his way around the intricate maze of European law.

47 PHRASE If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go. □  She grabbed his suitcase and led the way.

48 PHRASE If a person or group leads the way in a particular activity, they are the first person or group to do it or they make the most new developments in it. □  Sony has also led the way in shrinking the size of compact-disc players.

49 PHRASE If you say that someone or something has come a long way , you mean that they have developed, progressed, or become very successful. □  He has come a long way since the days he could only afford one meal a day.

50 PHRASE You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind. [EMPHASIS ] □  It was, by a long way, the worst meeting I have ever attended.

51 PHRASE If you say that something is a long way from being true, you are emphasizing that it is definitely not true. [EMPHASIS ] □  She is a long way from being the richest person in Britain.

52 PHRASE If you say that something goes a long way towards doing a particular thing, you mean that it is an important factor in achieving that thing. □ [+ towards/to ] Although not a cure, it goes a long way towards making the patient's life tolerable.

53 PHRASE If you say that someone has lost their way , you are criticizing them because they do not have any good ideas any more, or seem to have become unsure about what to do. [DISAPPROVAL ] □  Why has the White House lost its way on tax and budget policy?

54 PHRASE When you make your way somewhere, you walk or travel there. □  He made his way home at last.

55 PHRASE If one person or thing makes way for another, the first is replaced by the second. □  He said he was prepared to make way for younger people in the party.

56 PHRASE If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen. [EMPHASIS ] □  There was absolutely no way that we were going to be able to retrieve it.

57 PHRASE You can say no way as an emphatic way of saying no. [INFORMAL , EMPHASIS ] □  Mike, no way am I playing cards with you for money.