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down the road

1. if an event is a particular period of time down the road, it will not happen until that period has passed This is a wonderful invention, but a marketable product is several years down the road yet.

2. (American) if you say that something will happen down the road, you mean it will happen in the future We may at some point buy a house but that's down the road.

See also: road

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He had scarce got them on, and it was a sore labor, seeing that my inches will scarce match my girth--he had scarce got them on, I say, and I not yet at the end of the second psalm, when he bade me do honor to my new dress, and with that set off down the road as fast as feet would carry him. The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: "I see a way to decide our dispute. Fables by Aesop View in context They had walked some way and it was now night, but they could see a large iron gate a little way farther down the road on their left. The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context			dot the/ i's and cross the/ t's dote on double double as double back double Dutch double over double up double-dipping double-talk doubt doubting Thomas doughnut dovetail with down and dirty down in the dumps down memory lane down on luck down South down the drain Down the hatch Down the hatch! down the line down the little red lane down the pike down the road down the street down the toilet down the tube down to a gnat 's eyebrow down to chili and beans down to the last detail down to the wire down tools down with a disease down-and-dirty down-at-heel down-home down-to-earth down-to-the-wire dozen draft draft for draft into drag drag away drag feet drag heels drag name through the mire drag over the coals dragged out			down the drain down the drain down the drain down the drain Down The Garden Path down the gurgler Down the Hall down the hatch down the hatch down the hatch down the hatch down the hatch down the hatch Down the hatch! Down The Hill Down The Hill Radio Down the Hole down the line down the line down the line down the line down the line down the line down the line down the little red lane Down the Middle down the pan down the pike Down the Rabbit Hole Down the Rail down the road Down The Road Analysis Down the Shore Down the sound down the stairs Down the Street Down the Street Bead Show down the toilet down the tube down the tubes Down the wind Down Tick Down Tick Volume Down Ticks Down Time Tracking Module down to down to a gnat 's eyebrow Down to Attack Down to Bomb down to chili and beans Down to Cuddle Down to Earth Down to Earth Down to Earth Products Down To Earth Software, Inc. Down to Fornicate

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