way out
exit, outlet
way out
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
way-out
Adjective
1. informal terms; strikingly unconventional
(synonym) far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky
(similar) unconventional
way out (away out)
not close to the answer, wrong by a large amount Your guess was way out. My age is 49, not 41.
网开一面
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).
网开三面
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).
way out
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.