in the family way

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   (to be / become) pregnant

   In the end, she fell in the family way...

In the movies · 1

• In the end, she fell in the family way...Mary Reilly1996
• Being protective when they had to be, supporting one another in a family way.The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years2016
• And because you're family, by a way, the Weboys won't be pressing any charges.Let Him Go2020
• In fact, his entire family knows their way around a mattress.The Internship2013
• It's not like Thelma to cut herself off from her family this way.Monsieur Verdoux1947
• and family along the way, and I would keep driving until the land ran out in Saint John's, Newfoundland,Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father2008

From the same entry

• run in the family