English

Noun

harm's way ‎(plural not attested)

1. A place or course of danger.

   He kept his family out of harm's way.

   They put themselves in harm's way.

Usage notes

• This noun phrase is used almost exclusively as the object of prepositions, principally in, into, and out of, and from.
• Uncommonly, way is modified by determiners or adjectives or appears as object of a verb.
• Though this is a set phrase for most speakers, in literary use one may find it coordinated, as "in Ivan's and harm's way".

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