out of your way

Meaning

1. Editorial62% of films

   to stop blocking, bothering, or interfering with someone, often by leaving or keeping your distance

2. Editorial15% of films

   to make a special effort or take extra trouble to do something

3. Oxford15% of films

   not on the route that you planned to take

   When you were driving out of your way

4. Editorial8% of films

   to stop holding yourself back so you can do something naturally

In the movies · 84

• l could take you home. lt isn't out of my way.Brief Encounter1945
• Listen, we'll get out of your way.The Pursuit of Happyness2006
• Look I ll stay out of your wayThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 12011
• I'll be out of your way.The Witches2020
• When you were driving out of your wayYes Man2008
• I just need to get out of your way.The Internship2013
• I'll be out of your way in a sec.Fight Club1999
• No, I won't. I won't get out of your way.In Bruges2008

Learn it in full scenes

• Fight Club1999
  • Tyler Holds a Gun on Jack
  • Narrator Cries at Support Groups
  • Narrator and Marla Expose Each Other

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

• cut to the chase
• to myself
• hold it
• on television
• in the distance
• be on the telephone
• more like
• be sick
• face to face with
• shame on you
• bring under control
• a change of mind