to go down that road
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6.3
- phrasal verb
- Informal
:
seguir por ese camino
- Do you really want to go down that road again?
- want to go down that road
- go down that road again
- never go down that road
I was like, no way am I going down that road ever again.
- I was like, no way am I going down that road ever again.
- Let's go down that road and act out what that would look like.
- And I didn't, I didn't want to see myself go down that road.
- Once you start going down that road, it's ultimately going to be a disaster.
- I've heard of it, and I don't want to go down that road.
- And I just never, I thought, man, am I really going to try to build a studio and go down that road of getting all this gear.
- So This is why these tools are so important, because if we use these tools before we go down that road, we don't set up this insurmountable barrier.
- They also brought up their own deep dive research and data that would prove, should I ever decide to go down that road, that would be a real contender.
- And that, that same mechanism, I feel like I want to be cautious about our brain going down that road.
- But you start to go down that road and it to me, it's just the definition of inefficiency.
- And so I couldn't wear kit anymore without taking narcotics and because I was sober, like I'm not going to go down that road, you know what I mean?
- Even we want to know somewhere in the story that they have that moment, that pivot moment when they could go down that road.
- But it was about kind of going down that road and what pain that caused me and how I was able to, you know, kind of start over.
- If, if, if GI goes down that road to start that kind of contest, there's only one way he's got to win and win it all or it's toast.
Examples
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If we went down that road, where would that take us?
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I really have no desire to go down that road, and I thought I'd share my top 5 reasons for not going pro:
Blog text (8) -
Do you really want to go down that road?
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Once you start going down that road, it's ultimately going to be a disaster.
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The farther we went down that road, the more I worried about what my mother would think.
Fiction book (2002) -
Too many journalists go down that road.
Blog text (26) -
Go down that road, and people have a lot of power over you.
Blog text (32) -
I wasted years going down that road with precious little reward.
Blog text (9) -
Look, we don't wanna go down that road if we don't have to.
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If you choose to go down that road, you might face unexpected challenges.
Synonyms
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8.2
To start behaving in a bad or dangerous way that harms your life
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8.1
Doing something that leads nowhere useful
Antonyms
How Risky
- Informal
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5.8
- Informal
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6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase maps a literal spatial image (go down a road) onto choosing or pursuing a course of action, so a learner who knows the words can grasp a basic ‘take that path’ meaning. However, the conventional warning sense (‘that course may have bad consequences’) is a metaphorical extension and the evaluative nuance is not fully predictable without exposure, making it only partially compositional.
Etymology
The phrase go down that road gives a clear picture: if you go down a certain road, you follow a path that can take you far away and make it hard to come back. So it now means 'to begin a new action that may cause problems'.