in a way

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to some extent; not completely

   Still, in a way I should be grateful to you.

   So in a way,

In the movies · 65

• and, in a way, I wish I wasn't involved in this struggle.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet2020
• Still, in a way I should be grateful to you.The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
• - Your spaghetti? - Yes, in a way.Night and the City1950
• In a way.The Man from Earth2007
• In a way?Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• In a way.Downton Abbey2019
• So in a way,South Park: Imaginationland2008
• You know, in a way.Horns2013

Learn it in full scenes

• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947
  • Lucy Leaves Her In-Laws' House
  • Lucy Insists on Gull Cottage
  • Lucy Rents the Haunted House
• Night and the City1950
  • Harry Pitches His Fuel Pill to Mary
  • Mary Borrows Money From Adam
  • Harry Gets the Club Rules
• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• cut both ways
• either way

More idioms

• a walk in the park
• all the same
• catch red handed
• cost an arm and a leg
• follow in footsteps
• put all your eggs in one basket
• put your money where your mouth is
• make a fool of
• make a fool of yourself
• on the safe side
• once in a blue moon
• out of your head