From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshow the wayshow the wayEXAMPLEif you show the way for other people, you do something new that others then try to copy → show
Examples from the Corpus
show the way• No one people owns the map that shows the way.• The Channel tunnel shows the way.• Tony Cottee and David Marsh have shown the way.• Trevor-Roper had shown the way in the 1950s: Lawrence Stone emigrated to Princeton to escape his barbs.• The circle and the square show the way in which the phenomenological and the personal aspects of understanding relate.• Maturity is important to a leader because leading is not simply showing the way or issuing orders.• I mention it here because it and Sirius show the way to the open cluster M50 in Monoceros.• Short hair is in again, and Johnny Depp shows the way with a cool new cut. 