to carry away
88
3.5
- phrasal verb
- /ˈkæri əˈweɪ/
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- She got carried away with excitement and started dancing in the middle of the street.
- get carried away
- carry away the energy
I've got a feeling and I ain't going to get carried away and I ain't going to get too excited.
- I've got a feeling and I ain't going to get carried away and I ain't going to get too excited.
- Because you think in those in those scenarios, first of all, to your point earlier, you get carried away because you've been taught love is like this.
- Again, I just want to be careful with how I describe it to, you know, to manage expectations and not get too carried away.
- This one is actually the flat lay that I wanted to do originally before I got a little bit carried away and turned that into a huge project.
- And I remember literally, it was one vigorous encounter where we got a bit carried away and didn't you know, And then, yeah, we had a baby.
- So he goes on and he says, make it your first endeavor not to be carried away by your external impression, by the appearance.
- But obviously they had all their new winter and Halloween and Christmas stuff in and we got a bit excited and a bit carried away.
- Well, I mean, maybe that you guys, but we women do talking to you like if it's women getting a little carried away with the socks because you can tell how much that tries a woman.
Examples
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Presently, Raimond rode off to fetch men to dismantle and carry away the flight engine.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sometimes I get so carried away I don't know what I'm doing.
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And I got carried away standing up there and gave her a kiss.
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Guess the current must have carried it away.
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So I got a little carried away.
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I got a little carried away.
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I got a bit carried away.
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And not to get carried away with it, but again, how was I supposed to act?
Fiction book (1993) -
Well, it was all right, but let's not get carried away here...
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Seven years later, I carried away from the marriage some debt, some furniture, and a cat.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
Move someone or something to another place
795
2.3
To remove something from a place or reduce something important, for example a right
528
2.7
To move a person or thing to another place
157
2.1
To carry something in a vehicle or over a long distance
37
7.5
To make someone feel very happy or excited
18
3.5
To take people or things from one place to another
8
3.4
To take away large or heavy things using a vehicle
6
1.9
Make something go to another place by post
4
4.4
To take a person to another place or to move someone's feelings suddenly
1
4.1
To take something away in a vehicle, often because it is large or unwanted
1
7.0
To carry someone or something away from a place to another
Move a person or thing from one place into a different state, often by force
Antonyms
How Moved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'carry' (to support and move) plus 'away' (to another location) yields the clear sense of taking or removing something to another place. This verb+particle pattern is a standard, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows the parts can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Carry away comes from a simple image: something strong, like a river, can carry you away by moving you from one place to another. So, it now also means to be so excited or absorbed that you are 'moved from your normal state' or forget what you should do.