show the way

show the way (third-person singular simple present shows the way, present participle showing the way, simple past showed the way, past participle shown the way)

1. To indicate the correct method or approach for doing something.

• “show the way”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “show the way”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “show (sb) the way”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.