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Come, Barat, let's go and ask them the way. All right, you can ask the question any way you want. Commissioner, we are sure you will do an excellent job but, in the words of another Korean proverb, 'ask the way even when you already know it'. Yes. Thousands of Finnish people travel to Hungary to see Mika Häkkinen drive, while a Vietnamese hotel receptionist asks the right way to pronounce the name Jari Litmanen. The sergeant is reluctant to believe our friend here stopped his car to ask the way to his own constituency. Fine Did you ask him the way that we talked about?	It doesn't look like this phrase is very popular! The search could not find any examples on the internet.

ask the way

14,840,000 results on the web

ask for the way

17,730,000 results on the web

More popular!

Come, Barat, let's go and ask them the way.
All right, you can ask the question any way you want.
Commissioner, we are sure you will do an excellent job but, in the words of another Korean proverb, 'ask the way even when you already know it'.
Yes.
Thousands of Finnish people travel to Hungary to see Mika Häkkinen drive, while a Vietnamese hotel receptionist asks the right way to pronounce the name Jari Litmanen.
The sergeant is reluctant to believe our friend here stopped his car to ask the way to his own constituency.
Fine
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It doesn't look like this phrase is very popular! The search could not find any examples on the internet.