the long way

He said he was planning a trip towing a trailer which might have to see him go the "long way around" adding significant time and costs.

"I think they offered me a train home. And I drove back the long way from Glasgow after we wrapped!"

The magnetic fields initially applied by the tokamak wind around the torus-shaped plasma, both the long way -- around the outer edge, and the short way -- from the outer edge and through the center hole.

Cat took the long way to the food aisles.

That’s the long way of saying that on Saturday, Stanford might not give Rice the same opportunities he enjoyed a month ago.