Travel
take the long way home
choose a longer route home
To choose a longer route home, usually because you want to enjoy the journey.
Hear it in real life
Why did you get back so late?
I took the long way home and stopped for coffee.
I took the long way home because the weather was so pleasant.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I took the long road to home.
Say: I took the long way home.
Use the fixed phrase "the long way home," not "the long road to home."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
take the long way home; took the long way home
Your turn: say it out loud
I took the long way home because the weather was so pleasant.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
take the long way home
choose a longer route home
“I took the long way home because the weather was so pleasant.”
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