Question

What is saying things the way it was actually or originally said

Answer 1

✏ When “by the way” (or “by way”) first appeared in the 900s, its meaning was literal, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: “along or near the road by which one travels; by the road-side.” Around the year 1000, the phrase was first used to mean “while going along, in the course of one's walk or journey.”

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