far and away
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3.7
- idiom
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con diferencia
- The penthouse is huge, far and away the best suite in the house.
- far and away the most important
- far and away the most
It will outperform this far and away in those metrics.
- It will outperform this far and away in those metrics.
- And they found that the people who spent more time thinking about what's right in front of them were far and away happier.
- So asset allocation is far and away the most important tool that we have available to us as investors.
- The star of the show by far and away the lip balm.
- They, they do so much far and away above what people think they do.
- Oligon of Solsha was in by far and away his most high profile and pressurized job in his managerial career.
- But you know, far and away the most obvious possibility is that sapiens were just were powerful.
- It is far and away the my favorite television show, and I think I'm going to say it's the third greatest show ever.
Examples
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But you are far and away the best one.
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For my money, Microsoft's Ballpoint Mouse ($175, 800/4269400) is far and away the best of the bunch.
Academic text (1993) -
This one is by far and away the worst.
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Well, that is far and away your best book.
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This is I think far and away my favorite new web browser for the iPad.
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Now, there are other causes of kidney failure, of course, but these are by far and away the most common causes.
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So asset allocation is far and away the most important tool that we have available to us as investors.
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It's by far and away the best policy of either campaign to have Medicare cover that.
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He's far and away the most intelligent man I've ever met.
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This one is by far and away the worst.
Synonyms
156
2.5
Shows that something is much better or more important than others
1
3.0
By a much larger amount than others
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The primary sense 'by a very large amount' is signalled by 'far' (to a large degree), so a learner knowing the constituents can often infer an intensifying meaning; however the fixed phrase 'far and away' functions as an idiomatic superlative where 'and away' no longer contributes a literal spatial sense. Because the collocation is conventionalized and the exact pragmatic use (strong emphasis/comparative margin) is not fully predictable from the parts, it is partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase far and away comes from a simple picture: something that is both far and away stands well apart from the rest. So, we use it to mean 'by a very large amount' or 'much more' than others.