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Old Mar 22, 2017 | 7:19 am
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Originally Posted by blitzen
"and have a good way home" (good is literal translation it would be safe/nice if you want to capture the meaning)
Sorry, but as a native speaker of English (with a post-graduate degree in linguistics), I'm afraid 'have a good way home' is simply not idiomatic; i.e., it is not something that an English speaker would say. In Ireland one hears 'Safe home!', which gets to the safe / nice meaning you mention. 'Have a good trip home'? Maybe, if the trip involved some distance -- but not if, for example, someone was walking 100-200 metres home from the pub. It's tricky.
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