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roundabout way

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Noun1.roundabout way - a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)roundabout way - a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
road, route - an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation


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Five miles here by a roundabout way is only half my daily allowance of walking exercise; five miles back by a roundabout way remain to be now accomplished.
"It seems to me," he said, "that we have taken the roundabout way of getting to our end in view, when the straight road lay before us.
But he obstinately took roundabout ways, and presently he was where he could see long gray walls of vapor where lay battle lines.
 
 
 
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