way out

exit, outlet

Noun
1. an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"
(synonym) exit, issue, outlet
(hypernym) opening
(hyponym) outfall

Adjective
1. informal terms; strikingly unconventional
(synonym) far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky
(similar) unconventional

not close to the answer, wrong by a large amount Your guess was way out. My age is 49, not 41.

wang3 kai1 yi2 mian4
A net spread on one side.
Allowing a way out. To give the wrongdoer a way out. The same as 网开三面 (wang3 kai1 san1 mian4). Compare with 网开四方 (wang3 kai1 si4 fang1).

wang3 kai1 san1 mian4
A net spread on three sides.
Allowing a way out. To purposely leave loopholes for an escape of the law. The same as 网开一面 (wang3 kai1 yi2 mian4). Compare with 网开四方 (wang3 kai1 si4 fang1).

Synonyms and related words:
Bohemian, a la mode, a mile off, advanced, alternative, at the height, at the limit, avant-garde, avenue, away off, beat, blowhole, breakaway, channel, choice, chute, contemporary, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, escape clause, escape hatch, estuary, exhaust, exit, extreme, far from it, far other, far out, fashionable, floodgate, flume, forward-looking, free and easy, fringy, furthest, greatest, heretical, heterodox, hippie, in, informal, kinky, loophole, maverick, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, most, newfashioned, no such thing, not cricket, not done, not kosher, nothing like, now, offbeat, opening, original, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, present-day, present-time, pretext, progressive, quite another thing, radical, sally port, saving clause, sluice, something else, something else again, spiracle, spout, streamlined, tap, too much, twentieth-century, ultra, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, utmost, uttermost, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way of escape, way off, weir