long way around
long way around noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, way, around.
Noun
long way around (plural long ways around)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, way, around.
- An indirect approach.
- Acknowledging Annibale Carracci is the long way around to Rubens, but it is the route of choice because Annibale so aptly exemplifies a nagging notion we have about the difficulty of looking at painting in general and individual paintings in particular.1986, Frank Stella, Working Space, →ISBN, page 54
- That was the long way around of saying that I tend to use terribly crude debugging techniques with unsafe printfs.2009, Peter Seibel, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, →ISBN, page 268
Forms of long way around
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Questions about long way around
- What does long way around mean?
- Long way around means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, way, around.
- What part of speech is long way around?
- Long way around is a noun.
- What is the plural of long way around?
- The plural of long way around is long ways around.
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