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Out and away   /aʊt ənd əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Out and away

adverb
1.
By a considerable margin.  Synonyms: by far, far and away.  "It was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten"






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"Out and away" Quotes from Famous Books



... you are!" Hal cried; "Why, I have told you about him in my letters lots of times. He is out and away the nicest fellow in our school. A big fellow, too, thirteen and a half, and simply splendid at cricket. He is leaving at Christmas, ...
— A Tale of the Summer Holidays • G. Mockler

... And Carolyn, despite his facetiousness, felt more than ever that he might easily become a poet. Medora viewed the floating leaves with indulgent appreciation. "But don't let's cumber ourselves with many cares," she suggested; "we are here to make the best of the afternoon. Let's out and away,—the ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller

... thought. One generation cometh and another passeth away. There is no respite. March with time and find death, mayhap, before it has found you. As years ago the flamelet of the street-lamp, so now these outposts of the colossal embryo of a world derided me and seemed to point me out and away. The evening grew chill with "a greeting in which ...
— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London

... they have, out and away.' Steevens suggests that allusion is here made to the sign of the Globe Theatre—Hercules ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... out and away by daylight. If we could not find horse feed inside of four hours, we would be forced to retreat. Three hours of the four went by. Then Harry and I held the horses while our companions scouted ahead rapidly. We nearly froze, for in that deep valley the sun did not rise until nearly ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White



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