far far away
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6.7
- idiom
- Literature
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muy lejos
- Del had the radio cranked up, and somewhere far, far away, a woman sang of love lost and kindly remembered.
- galaxy far far away
- somewhere far far away
- kingdom far far away
So across the Atlantic, far, far away, there's a magical realm called Europe.
- So across the Atlantic, far, far away, there's a magical realm called Europe.
- Let's put that away, far, far away.
- I'm in a country which is very far, far away from home, very far away from familiarity.
- Can you just completely drift far, far away from the underlying reality and never get in trouble?
- I mean, the Star Wars series, it all begins with a Galaxy far, far away.
- And this is a big signal for a woman, especially a high confident woman, to stay far, far away from you.
- So I think height maxing in general, stay far, far away from that because it's just trying to get your attention, trying to get views.
- I am from a Josie far far far away right off Santa Monica Blvd.
- So I wind up the judge, like far away, far, far away.
- I worked really hard to get this slide for you a long time ago, far, far away.
Examples
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I've always thought of a retreat as several days of uninterrupted writing, far, far away from home.
Blog text (17) -
Once upon a time, not too long ago, in a fabulous land far, far away, a woman was packing.
Blog text (21) -
And we will have to go very far, far away, back in time.
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We're going to live far, far away from here in America, right.
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Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, a baby girl was born.
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The daughter must find a way to separate from this woman and live far, far away.
Blog text (17) -
Some said he flew to another forest far, far away.
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Fiction book (2000) -
I'm in a country which is very far, far away from home, very far away from familiarity.
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Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there lived a magic boy named Marco.
Synonyms
241
1.0
At a great distance in space or time
45
4.2
Very far away in place or time
22
8.8
At a great distance
20
6.8
Very different in life, feeling, or situation
10
8.2
Far from home or usual place, often when working away
To travel to a distant place to find adventure
Extremely far away and hard to reach or get
Antonyms
How Far
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'at a very great distance' is directly and predictably built from the constituents 'far' and 'away', with simple reduplication ('far far') serving as an emphatic intensifier. A B1 learner who knows 'far' and 'away' will readily infer the intensified distance meaning, and this compositional/emphatic pattern is common cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Far far away comes from old fairy tales where a hero travels to a land beyond all known places. Repeating far makes the place feel much farther, so the phrase means 'at a very great distance'.