OUT AND AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out and away mean? 

• OUT AND AWAY (adverb)
  The adverb OUT AND AWAY has 1 sense:

1. by a considerable margin

  Familiarity information: OUT AND AWAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT AND AWAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By a considerable margin

Synonyms:

by far; far and away; out and away

Context example:

it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten

 Context examples 

“Mr. Trelawney, out and away,” said I.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was there, in the fibre of his being; and it was the most natural thing in the world that he should obey it by turning his back on his new-born family and by trotting out and away on the meat-trail whereby he lived.

(White Fang, by Jack London)