on the way | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Coming;approaching.Don't panic! Reinforcements areon the way.Spring ison the way.2020,Bob Dylan,Murder Most Foul:Don't worry, Mr. President, help'son the wayYour brothers are comin', there'll be hell to pay; Headingto a certain place.We areon our wayto the train station.; On thedirectroutethat one intends to travel.I can drop you at the station, as it ison my wayhome.; On one's way.; Whiletravelling.1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passedon the waythe van of the guests from Asquith.1918September–November,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, inThe Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.,→OCLC; republished as chapter V, inHugo Gernsback, editor,Amazing Stories,(please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.:Experimenter Publishing,1927,→OCLC:We gathered up what was left of the red deer after skinning and cleaning it, and set out upon our return journey toward the U-boat.On the wayOlson, von Schoenvorts and I discussed the needs of our immediate future, and we were unanimous in placing foremost the necessity of a permanent camp on shore.

Examples:

EN: The smugglers are on the way.
ES: Los contrabandistas están de camino.
EN: "When you were forced to stay here by Gunne's illness while the circus Panelli was on tour, we got married on the way."
ES: Cuando tuve que quedarme aquí por la enfermedad de Gunne, mientras el Circo Panelli se iba de tournée, nos casamos fuera.
EN: "This is Afra out of Vintschgau - she got sick on the way..."
ES: "Ésta es Afra la de Vintschgau... se me ha puesto enferma en el camino... "
EN: When the great bell tolled like that, all Paris knew some prisoner was on the way to execution.
ES: Cuando la gran campana sonó, todo París sabía que algún prisionero iba camino de su ejecución.
EN: Schiller and Petersen on the way to Mannheim
ES: Schiller y Petersen, camino a Mannheim
EN: Your uncle is already on the way here and we will immediately arrange for a divorce.
ES: Tu tío viene hacia aquí e inmediatamente conseguiremos el divorcio.
EN: The homicide squad's on the way out to take Scarsi!
ES: "La brigada de homicidios ya viene para acá para llevarse a Scarsi."
EN: and even you and I will go right on the way we were before.
ES: Y hasta nosotros seguiremos con la vida de siempre.
EN: And by the way I explained to the district attorney on the way down about Jimmy and the girl here.
ES: Por cierto, le expliqué al fiscal de distrito, mientras veníamos, todo sobre Jimmie y la chica. ¡Oh, eso es bueno!
EN: The men I mentioned on the way up here. Dr. Ambrose Lindquist, John Cleaver and Louie Mannix.
ES: Los hombres que mencioné mientras veníamos, el Doctor Ambrose Lindquist, John Cleaver, y Louis Mannix.
EN: - Something interesting might happen on the way.
ES: - Algo interesante podría pasar en el camino.
EN: 6 children, a husband unemployed... and the seventh on the way.
ES: 6 hijos, un marido en paro... y el séptimo de camino.
EN: But I stopped at all the pubs on the way back.
ES: Regresando me he ido, parando en todos los bares.
EN: Keep a lookout on the way over. That place is alive with arches.
ES: Toda la zona está cubierta de cañones antiaéreos.
EN: Well, I broke down on the way.
ES: Bueno... pinché.

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