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[in one's way]
{adv.} or {adj. phr.} 1. Within reach; likely to bemet; before you.
The
chance to work for a printer was put in myway.
Compare: PUT IN THE WAY OF. 2.
or [in the way] In your path as ahindrance; placed so as to block the way.
Fred tried to get to thedoor, but the table was in the way.
A tree had
fallen across thestreet and was in Jim's way as he drove.
Mary tried to
clean thehouse, but the baby was always in the
way.
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