down the road

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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 More results

? References in classic literature

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

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