out-of-the-way
- adjective
- With those preliminaries out of the way, we can turn to the matter at hand.
You know, you're getting that out of the way to make room for this.
- You know, you're getting that out of the way to make room for this.
- All right, glad I got that out of the way.
- We bought a thing to get those things out of the way.
- OK, so let's get the most outrageously expensive thing out of the way.
- That said, let's listen to what JPM thinks now that we got CPI out of the way.
- So he puts that aside and then he says there's a few other definitions, attempts to characterize art that we need to get out of the way as well.
- OK, now with all that out of the way, let's dive into the lookbook that I have put together for these five books.
Examples
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Once all of the formalities were out of the way, we got down to the nitty-gritty of getting to know one another.
Academic text (2015) -
Once I got those two issues out of the way, the rest worked pretty smoothly.
Blog text (21) -
But we're going to get that out of the way right away.
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I should probably tell you something now, just to get it out of the way.
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Let's get the big one out of the way, shall we?
Blog text (21) -
But now that we've gotten that out of the way, it's time for the evidence.
Blog text (1) -
So with that out of the way, let's get right into the actual sort of meat of this, which is the details of the V Core VRM and the HBMVRM.
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Now that we have the introductory remarks out of the way, we can start our main discussion.
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Once the initial questions were out of the way, the meeting became much more productive.
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With all the formalities out of the way, we can finally enjoy the celebration.
Synonyms
Finished so it no longer blocks progress
Not involved in or told about a situation
Finished and no longer happening
Completely finished and settled so nothing more needs doing
Antonyms
How Finished
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Out-of-the-way comes from the idea of moving something out of your **way' so it no longer blocks you. So when a task is 'out-of-the-way' it is done or dealt with and no longer needs attention.