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way a path in a particular direction;
the Way (in the Acts of the Apostles) the Christian religion; with allusion to John 24:6.
way of all flesh death;
go the way of all flesh, meaning ‘die’, is an early variant of the biblical ‘go the way of all the earth’, as in 1 Kings 2:2. The way of all flesh is also sometimes used to mean the experience common to humankind in its passage through life.
the way of the Cross the journey of Jesus to the place of his crucifixion; in extended usage, the suffering and self-sacrifice of a Christian.
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach proverbial saying, early 19th century.
See also
a lion in the way,
the longest way round,
look the other way,
love will find a way,
right of way,
ways,
where there's a will there's a way.
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Wendt, Albert
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Samoan Incident
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