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fall+by+the+wayside

  • 1 fall by the wayside

    ((of projects, ideas etc) to be abandoned; to fail.) stranda, lägga ner, överge

    English-Swedish dictionary > fall by the wayside

  • 2 way

    adv. oerhört; långt, högt
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    n. väg, stig; sätt, vis; avseende; form; riktning; avstånd
    * * *
    [wei] 1. noun
    1) (an opening or passageway: This is the way in/out; There's no way through.) väg, passage
    2) (a route, direction etc: Which way shall we go?; Which is the way to Princes Street?; His house is on the way from here to the school; Will you be able to find your/the way to my house?; Your house is on my way home; The errand took me out of my way; a motorway.) väg
    3) (used in the names of roads: His address is 21 Melville Way.) gata[], väg[]
    4) (a distance: It's a long way to the school; The nearest shops are only a short way away.) väg, el. oöversatt: det är långt till skolan
    5) (a method or manner: What is the easiest way to write a book?; I know a good way of doing it; He's got a funny way of talking; This is the quickest way to chop onions.) sätt, vis
    6) (an aspect or side of something: In some ways this job is quite difficult; In a way I feel sorry for him.) sätt, vis, avseende
    7) (a characteristic of behaviour; a habit: He has some rather unpleasant ways.) sätt, uppträdande, beteende
    8) (used with many verbs to give the idea of progressing or moving: He pushed his way through the crowd; They soon ate their way through the food.) fram, el. oöversatt: de hade snart ätit sig igenom maten
    2. adverb
    ((especially American) by a long distance or time; far: The winner finished the race way ahead of the other competitors; It's way past your bedtime.) långt, högt
    - wayside
    - be/get on one's way
    - by the way
    - fall by the wayside
    - get/have one's own way
    - get into / out of the way of doing something
    - get into / out of the way of something
    - go out of one's way
    - have a way with
    - have it one's own way
    - in a bad way
    - in
    - out of the/someone's way
    - lose one's way
    - make one's way
    - make way for
    - make way
    - under way
    - way of life
    - ways and means

    English-Swedish dictionary > way

См. также в других словарях:

  • fall\ by\ the\ wayside — • fall by the wayside • drop by the wayside v. phr. To give up or fail before the finish. The boys tried to make a 50 mile hike, but most of them fell by the wayside. George, Harry, and John entered college to become teachers, but Harry and John… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • fall by the wayside — To fall by the wayside is to give up or fail before completion …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • fall by the wayside — ► fall by the wayside fail to persist in an undertaking. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 8.] Main Entry: ↑wayside …   English terms dictionary

  • fall by the wayside — verb give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat In the second round, the challenger gave up • Syn: ↑drop out, ↑give up, ↑drop by the wayside, ↑throw in, ↑throw in the towel, ↑quit, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • fall by the wayside — also[drop by the wayside] {v. phr.} To give up or fail before the finish. * /The boys tried to make a 50 mile hike, but most of them fell by the wayside./ * /George, Harry, and John entered college to become teachers, but Harry and John fell by… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fall by the wayside — also[drop by the wayside] {v. phr.} To give up or fail before the finish. * /The boys tried to make a 50 mile hike, but most of them fell by the wayside./ * /George, Harry, and John entered college to become teachers, but Harry and John fell by… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fall by the wayside — 1. if someone falls by the wayside, they fail to finish an activity. A lot of students fall by the wayside during their first year at university. 2. if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it. Many new drugs… …   New idioms dictionary

  • fall by the wayside (to) —  Decide not to continue; fail.  ► “Economists can so dislike the conclusions of an article that they comb through the article with the sole hope of refuting its logic. . . . They focus on minor points in the hope that more major issues will fall… …   American business jargon

  • fall by the wayside —    If a plan or project falls by the wayside, it remains unfinished or people stop trying to do it.     Local residents protested so strongly that plans for a new motorway     fell by the wayside …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • fall by the wayside — give up or fail before the finish He had a good chance of winning the competition but he fell by the wayside near the end …   Idioms and examples

  • fall by the wayside — fail to persist in an undertaking. [with biblical allusion to Luke 8:5.] → wayside …   English new terms dictionary

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