across the way
idiom
: across from someone on the other side of the street
They live across the way (from us).
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But now, with bullets flying across the way, our attention is finally turning to those windows and the cast of characters behind them.
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2024
On a scorching Saturday afternoon in June, a handful of people slipped into a nondescript downtown L.A. studio with tinted windows, just across the way from Walt Disney Concert Hall.
—Michelle Lhooq, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Well, the soldier at the far left is the one who’s chugging from a wineskin, not the angel across the way.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
But Drew takes the guy out from across the way, with a 40-yard pistol shot.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024
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Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2024
On a scorching Saturday afternoon in June, a handful of people slipped into a nondescript downtown L.A. studio with tinted windows, just across the way from Walt Disney Concert Hall.
—Michelle Lhooq, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Well, the soldier at the far left is the one who’s chugging from a wineskin, not the angel across the way.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
But Drew takes the guy out from across the way, with a 40-yard pistol shot.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Across the way.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/across%20the%20way. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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