by\ the\ way

by\ the\ way
• by the way
• by the bye
adv. phr.
Just as some added fact or news; as something else that I think of. - Used to introduce something related to the general subject, or brought to mind by it.

We shall expect you; by the way, dinner will be at eight.

I was reading when the earthquake occurred, and, by the way, it was the Last Days of Pompeii that I was reading.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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