"go down the road" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From road, in the figurative sense of the way to doing or achieving something.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes down the road",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going down the road",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went down the road",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone down the road",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> down the road"
      },
      "expansion": "go down the road (third-person singular simple present goes down the road, present participle going down the road, simple past went down the road, past participle gone down the road)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, M. Watts, Office Politics - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly",
          "text": "Stay focused on the company's mission so that you can continue to take steps in that direction. Whatever you do, don't go down the road of being a control freak!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To employ a way of doing something; to do something in a particular way."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_down_the_road-en-verb-k2NV89Fc",
      "links": [
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "always with \"of\" and further description",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, always with \"of\" and further description) To employ a way of doing something; to do something in a particular way."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "go down that road"
        },
        {
          "word": "go down a road"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go down the road.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-au-go_down_the_road.ogg/En-au-go_down_the_road.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-au-go_down_the_road.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go down the road"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From road, in the figurative sense of the way to doing or achieving something.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes down the road",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going down the road",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went down the road",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone down the road",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> down the road"
      },
      "expansion": "go down the road (third-person singular simple present goes down the road, present participle going down the road, simple past went down the road, past participle gone down the road)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, M. Watts, Office Politics - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly",
          "text": "Stay focused on the company's mission so that you can continue to take steps in that direction. Whatever you do, don't go down the road of being a control freak!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To employ a way of doing something; to do something in a particular way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "always with \"of\" and further description",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, always with \"of\" and further description) To employ a way of doing something; to do something in a particular way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go down the road.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-au-go_down_the_road.ogg/En-au-go_down_the_road.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-au-go_down_the_road.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "go down that road"
    },
    {
      "word": "go down a road"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go down the road"
}