Meaning of long way around | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, way, around.
2. An indirect approach.

Examples

“Acknowledging Annibale Carracci is the long way around to Rubens, but it is the route of choice because Annibale so aptly exemplifies a nagging notion we have about the difficulty of looking at painting in general and individual paintings in particular.”

“That was the long way around of saying that I tend to use terribly crude debugging techniques with unsafe printfs.”

“It seems that people think of simple ways to say things or know them, but I was always taking the long way around.”

“We often ask why God takes such long ways around to his stated objectives.”

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