take the road Definition

road
noun

1. An open way, usually specially surfaced or paved, for people, vehicles or animals to travel on from one place to another. Also as adj.

Example: road traffic
Thesaurus: route, street, avenue, boulevard, drive, lane, path, highway, freeway, thoroughfare.
2. A route or course.

Example: the road to ruin
3. naut.
A relatively sheltered area of water near the shore where ships may be anchored.
Form: roads (usually)
Form: roadstead (also)
(chiefly US)
4. A railway.
5. A passage in a mine.

Derivative: roadless
adj

Idiom: be in someone's or something's road (get in someone's or something's road)

colloq
To obstruct or hinder them or it.
Example: His attitude towards women got in the road of his promotion

Idiom: hit the road

To leave; to depart.

Idiom: one for the road

A final, usually alcoholic, drink before leaving.

Idiom: on the road

Travelling from place to place, especially as a commercial traveller, a musician on tour or a tramp.

Idiom: take the road

To depart; to set off.

Idiom: take to the road

To become a tramp.

To set off for or travel to somewhere.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon rad, related to ride.