way back

Meaning

1. Editorial40% of films

   A route or means of returning to a place or former state.

2. Editorial35% of films

   On the return trip, or while going back somewhere.

3. Oxford20% of films

   a long time ago

4. Editorial5% of films

   Far to the rear, or at a considerable distance behind.

In the movies · 91

• You sent me to recruit him way back when.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• A guilt fantasy that goes way back to your childhood.Spellbound1945
• I thought you was a wise guy from way back.Key Largo1948
• All the way back.Mystic River2003
• He's on his way back.United 932006
• Way back in the day...Beasts of the Southern Wild2012
• Warren and I go way back.About Schmidt2002
• Plesac. They're on their way back.Breach2007

Learn it in full scenes

• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack
• Beasts of the Southern Wild2012
  • Hushpuppy Describes the Bathtub
  • Wink Prepares Hushpuppy for the Storm
  • A Bathtub Funeral with No Crying
• About Schmidt2002
  • Ray's Toast at the Retirement Dinner
  • Jeannie's Long-Distance Call Home
  • Warren's Video Letter to Ndugu

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

• go to bed with
• day by day
• learn the hard way
• jump to conclusions
• from scratch
• behind the scenes
• lend a hand
• ups and downs
• by far
• in over your head
• i bet
• a step at a time