Daily life
get in the way
make something harder or prevent it
If something gets in the way, it makes an activity more difficult or stops it from happening.
Hear it in real life
Why did you stop exercising?
My long commute got in the way.
Try not to let small problems get in the way of your plans.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: My job got on the way of my studies.
Say: My job got in the way of my studies.
The fixed expression is "get in the way of," not "get on the way of."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
get in the way of something; get in the way of doing something
Your turn: say it out loud
Try not to let small problems get in the way of your plans.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
get in the way
make something harder or prevent it
“Try not to let small problems get in the way of your plans.”
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