down the way

down the way

1. Further along a southern direction or downhill route.

   They live just down the way.

   • 1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Maps and Legends”, in Fables of the Reconstruction:

     Down the way, the road's divided.
     Paint me the places you have seen.
     Those who know what I don't know
     refer to the yellow, red, and green.

2. Later; at indeterminate point in the future.

   I plan to publish my novel somewhere down the way.

Chiefly southern U.S.

• down the road

• up the way