in the way

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   stopping sb from moving or doing sth

   You're in the way.

2. Editorial20% of films

   In the form or nature of something, or amounting to it, often after little, nothing, or anything

In the movies · 107

• You could keep on heading east But there's an ocean in the wayCome from Away2021
• Uh, excuse me. You're in our way.Hair1979
• And if the major gets in your way, shoot him too.The Guns of Navarone1961
• You're in the way.Cruella2021
• in the way of constancy.Poor Things2023
• We shouldn't stand in the way of progress.Babylon2022
• Golf clubs were in the way.Funny Games2007
• But not in the way you imagine it.The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013

Learn it in full scenes

• Come from Away2021
  • Gander Learns of the Emergency
  • Planes Land Unexpectedly in Gander
  • Gander Declares a State of Emergency

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

• you're welcome
• at a time
• have no idea
• thank god
• let me see
• the other day
• bear in mind
• on earth
• change your mind
• in the end
• good job
• at last