around Robin Hood's barn
the long way around; a roundabout or circuitous route
noun
A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
An arena.
Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.
A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
verb
To lay up in a barn.
But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits
Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.
noun
A child.