the way things are going

idiom

: if things continue to happen like this

The way things are going, I may lose my job.

Examples of the way things are going in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And South Carolina Republican primary voters are also dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country overall and rate the nation's economy negatively, according to early exit polls. —Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024

And seven in 10 are unhappy with the way things are going in the country. —Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024

All in all, the way things are going, the Rockets likely won’t even have to try to continue losing. —Rahat Huq, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024

Relatedly, 79% were dissatisfied or even angry with the way things are going in the country today. —Gary Langer, ABC News, 23 Jan. 2024

And that's just not the way things are going right now. —Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023

There are signs that investors aren’t happy about the way things are going. —Brent Lang, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023

This year’s speechwriters had to balance the president’s desire to point out his administration’s successes with voters’ negative sentiment about the way things are going. —Mary Kate Cary, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023

Gallup polls in May found that 39% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing and 18% are satisfied with the way things are going in the country. —Brian Bennett, Time, 15 June 2023