окольным путём('Otherwise why should not her luggage have been openly labelled for Baden? Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)ART Vancouver)
окольный путь(букв. и перен.: "he took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site"; "this is quite a circuitous route to achieve your goal!" Рина Грант)
