there's more than one way to skin a cat
A problem generally has more than one solution; there is more than one way to achieve a goal.
At any rate, thought I, there's more than one way to skin a cat, as a butcher would say.
way
UK [wɛj] US [weɪ]
noun 7name 6adv 3intj 1verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
To do with a place or places.
Do you know the way to the airport? Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut. It's a long way from here.
Twenty miles is a long way to walk.
2
To do with a place or places.
We got into the cinema through the back way.
Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
3
To do with a place or places.
If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
4
A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
You're going about it the wrong way. He's known for his quirky ways. I don't like the way she looks at me.
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
5
A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
intj
1
Yes; it is true; it is possible.
- We searched the vehicle. It was clean, so we did the body cavity searches. - No way. - Way!
We repeated this ritual of “no way - way, no way - way” over the years.
verb
1
To travel.
on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge[…].
Laötze says, “The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name. The Way that can be wayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand.
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