"down the way" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They live just down the way."
        },
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          "ref": "1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Maps and Legends”, in Fables of the Reconstruction:",
          "text": "Down the way, the road's divided.\nPaint me the places you have seen.\nThose who know what I don't know\nrefer to the yellow, red, and green.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Further along a southern direction or downhill route."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "up the way"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "down the road"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 76",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I plan to publish my novel somewhere down the way."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Later; at indeterminate point in the future."
      ],
      "id": "en-down_the_way-en-prep_phrase-7EJTO98N"
    }
  ],
  "word": "down the way"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "up the way"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They live just down the way."
        },
        {
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              12
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Maps and Legends”, in Fables of the Reconstruction:",
          "text": "Down the way, the road's divided.\nPaint me the places you have seen.\nThose who know what I don't know\nrefer to the yellow, red, and green.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Further along a southern direction or downhill route."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I plan to publish my novel somewhere down the way."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Later; at indeterminate point in the future."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "down the road"
    }
  ],
  "word": "down the way"
}