English Prepositional phrase in something's way Obstructing, blocking, or impeding the movement or line of sight of something. The tent was unfortunately in the moose's way. The mountains were in the railroad's way. Synonyms in one's way, in someone's way (person) in the way of Translations impeding the movement or line of sight French: dans le chemin de quelqu’un Hungarian: útban Norwegian: Bokmål: i veien for noen Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.