fork in the road
Idiomatic translations of "fork in the road"
Meanings of "fork in the road"
lasabiA point when a road splits in two directions.
ϕιλομαθήςraskršće - mesto gde se put račva na dva dela
Jelena Petrovic 1"fork in the road" in lyrics
Wow baby
Where are you drifting to,
at which fork in the road?
This song I’m listening to,
The Midnight - Summer's Ending Soon
What if there's no answer
To the questions that keep us up at night
It's just a fork in the road
And no matter where you go
Suddenly, I turn around
It's passing out of view
The fork in the road looks like memories
Tucked in a photo frame
(for whom, Why should we stop?)
A fork in the road, we may have to decide
which way we will walk along, to stay or go
The Untamed (OST) - Involuntary
Up close, separating the clear from the muddied is difficult1
As young men, we raised our wine, saying
“May our crossroads be few!”2
At the locus of right and wrong, all must eventually be revealed
- 1. A few notes on these lines: first, I want to highlight how cool this ink-splash painting metaphor is. The first line/three characters evokes the vastness of natural scenery and the unchanging nature of the mountains and rivers, which resonates/contrasts with the chorus’s thematic focus on political turmoil in the human realm, the rapidity of change and its attendant sorrows. In the next line, the lyrics take this sweeping imagery and shift it from natural spectacle to artistic effect, tying the moment to Lan Xichen as he gazes at an ink-splash painting of a landscape. The third line then uses the metaphor of landscape painting to bring us back to the thematic narrative of the song—咫尺难分清与浊 / Up close, separating the clear from the muddied is difficult. 清浊 qingzhuo, literally “clear, muddied,” contains figurative and moral valences of opposites (i.e. good and evil, excellent and inferior, high and low, etc.).
- 2. 歧路 qilu is actually less “crossroads” and more “fork in the road,” but both are traditional places to part from friends. In addition, 歧路 qilu has a valence of not just a different road taken, but the wrong road taken (in opposition to 正途 zhengtu / the correct or righteous road). This could, conceivably, be a reference to a line from Li Bai’s 《行路难三首》: 行路难！行路难！多歧路，今安在？/ “The road is hard! The road is hard! There are many forks in the road; where am I today?”
Kang San Ae - Like those lively salmon rising against the river stream
I will be lying down those wide flower beds to take some rest.
Among many prongs of a fork in the road.
Even if this path that I’m walking is in the pitch black dark, even without starlight
I can't believe how happy I become... and how afraid...
Passing a fork in the road beyond my imagination, and embracing the tomorrow it leads to,
My small shoulders are trembling right now... but I'm not done yet!
[Hook: The Whispers]
I'm living on my last breath
Hit a fork in the road and the devil occupies both lanes
Stumble as I back step
Chris Webby - Baggage (feat. Ren)
Next thing you in the bathroom scorin' some blow
See it is what it is and it's all that I know
But I'm gettin' to a fork in the road
I know the way it's been, I take it in
MARINA (United Kingdom) - Mowgli's Road
Forsaken road
There's a fork in the road
I'll do as I am told
I won't be able to find the answers I'm looking for
Past that fork in the road
Through the grass and trees
163 braces - IHTS (I Hate the Story)
Making us make different choices.
Why do both of us going in the same direction
Still come to a fork in the road?
Raising my head to the sky B.I.G. I did it, multi before I die
No lie, just know I chose my own fate
I drove by the fork in the road and went straight
Motoki Ohmori - Filling in the Blanks
Alright then, see you tomorrow.
We wave at the fork in the road
until we can’t see each other anymore.
But we know this is real
There's a fork in the road
But we've already had our appetite
He will try your mettle, he will test your morals
We stand silent by the fork in the road, where summer ends
Like teenagers on the way home after yesterdays debut
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (OST) - Fork in the Road
Dull roadside grass, I found it pretty
I hid my face in your lovely back
By a strange turn of events, by a fortune’s whim
A dream lover way out of my league
Intersection, scramble, oxygen running out
Oh? This is a turning point
I don't know this fork in the road, come quickly
It's straight at the red light I think, the din of the town, hard to breathe
Honey, you looking so nervous
We arrived at a fork in the road
And said nothing either way
The time goes
I'll be right there
I feel, I feel there's a fork in the road
