gothewayof (third-person singular simple presentgoes the way of,present participlegoing the way of,simple pastwent the way of,past participlegone the way of)
- (idiomatic) Toend up the same way as; to undergo the same fate as.
Vinyl records seem to havegone the way of the dinosaurs [i.e. become extinct, or fallen out of common use].
2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, inThe Guardian[1]:We now need to make coal- and gas-fired power plantsgo the way of whale oil. And if you want to change the world, it helps first to have an alternative. People invented railways to replace horse-drawn carriages, electricity to supplant steam engines, rock oil for whale oil, and the market – Adam Smith’s great invisible hand – ensured they took hold.
