the other way

Adverb

Meaning

the other way (not comparable)

(baseball, of a batted ball) To the opposite side of the plate relative to the batter.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. Juan Ramón Jiménez

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. Dan Quayle

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. Sam Walton

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. Adlai Stevenson II

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. A. J. P. Taylor

When a girl in the teahouse smiles at you, look the other way. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

the other side of the fence the other side of the pond the other side of the tracks the other way about the other way around the other way round