A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, that permits escape or release.
Gimmick or ploy to escape a situation that is unfavorable, difficult or dangerous.
1 We were now clear off, and making great way out to sea.
2 Of course there's always one way out - the sure way-butthat can wait.
3 However Kelly's character manages to inveigle her way out of the situation.
4 There is not any clear way out of the sovereign debt crisis.
5 A nineteenth-century amateur, did some work way out in New York State.
6 It knows a way in, it must know a way out , yes.
7 I see therefore no other way out therefore than resigning from GWPF.
8 There may be no easy way out of this set of circumstances.
9 Among Obama's czars, Holdren wasn't alone way out on the far left.
10 Please, feel free to sign the guest book on your way out . '
11 We are not going to arrest our way out of this problem.
12 No way out , and plenty of warning in case someone came in.
13 The company behind IBM's storage cloud is indeed on the way out .
14 There are no streetlights way out on the parish roads, of course.
15 I need your people all the way out of the picture immediately.
16 He leads the way out of the church towards his private room.
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