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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009'My way or the highway'
I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". What I don't know is the meaning of " the highway". Is it 1. hit the road or 2.the morally desirable alternative? > I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > or > 2.the morally desirable alternative? Ans: item 1.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) > or > 2.the morally desirable alternative? Wouldn't that be the high way? DC -- > > or > > 2.the morally desirable alternative? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > DC > -- Precisely, hence my confusion. > Arcadian Rises wrote: > > or [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > DC > -- Precisely, hence my confusion. Highway, a major limited access road. > Highway, a major limited access road. No, this is a late 20th century US legalism, meaning only a certain type of motor road. The main ancient meaning is simply any (engineer-built) road for wheeled vehicles. Ordinary English used the phrase "the king's highway" to mean any public road (as distinct from privately-constructed toll roads, a short-lived 18th century venture) cf. the dozen instances in the King James Version Bibe. (In Ontario for most of the 20th century all roads assigned numbers by the provincial government were signposted "King's Highway No. 2" etc.) SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) > > > or > > > 2.the morally desirable alternative? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Precisely, hence my confusion. Some folks seem to opt for a morally undesirable alternative -- drinking booze for the *high* way. -- Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego >I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > or > 2.the morally desirable alternative? Do as I say or leave. >I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". > > What I don't know is the meaning of " the highway". > > Is it > 1. hit the road yes Adrian Arcadian Rises <Arcadianrises@aol.com> wrote in news:ae442a29-4097-4e6a- b560-ddf50081b222@z27g2000prd.googlegroups.com: > I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > or > 2.the morally desirable alternative? It means your other choice is to leave. >I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >or >2.the morally desirable alternative? It means "Either do it my way or hit the road, Jack! And don't you come back no more, no more." SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland > >I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > It means "Either do it my way or hit the road, Jack! And don't you > come back no more, no more." ...and the horse you rode in on. SignatureJohn Varela Trade OLD lamps for NEW for email >> >I know about the lyrics of "My way or the highway". >> > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >...and the horse you rode in on. Exactly, John, who was, of course, referring to the immemorial FYATHYRIO, which was not part of the song. SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland |
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