Traveling, as in Our salesmen are on the road five days a week . [Mid-1600s]
Traveling, as in Our salesmen are on the road five days a week . [Mid-1600s]
on the road to . On the way to, following a course that will end in. For example, We could see Mary was on the road to recovery , or The business obviously was on the road to ruin . [Mid-1600s]
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When J.H., a junior at an Orange County public high school, went to the school library to check out On the Road by Jack Kerouac, it was nowhere to be found.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025
Irsay's most prized item is the original typewritten scroll for Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," which he bought in 2001 for $2.43 million.
From Reuters • Jun. 3, 2022
The Democrat made the comments in a Vogue magazine profile titled, “A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill Biden.”
From Washington Times • Jul. 1, 2021
And thus the writer’s euphoric westward peregrinations, by motor car, kindled a new spirit of domestic US travel: On the Road rather than On the Railroad.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2020
Love always, Charlie February 2, 1992 Dear friend, On the Road was a very good book.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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