on one's way
English
Alternative forms
Prepositional phrase
- Leaving; going about one's business.
- If we're done, I'll be on my way.
- 1972, Paul Simon, “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, in Paul Simon:
- Well I'm on my way / I don't know where I'm going / I'm on my way / I'm taking my time but I don't know where
- On the way.
- (obsolete) Pregnant.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Fellow Hector, she is gone; she is two moneths on her way.
Antonyms
Translations
on the way — see on the way
References
- “on one's way”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.