out and away—
1. definitely; unquestionably:
- He was out and away the most brilliant student in the class.
2. far away:
- There are days when everyone else in the house is out and away and she writes a melancholy note on loneliness.
out and out—
1. absolute; unqualified:
- We are not among the out-and-out admirers of the political opinions of this school.
2. (parenthetical) definitely; unquestionably:
- She is the cleverest woman I know, out and out.
3. = out and away 1:
- She is out and out the prettiest girl in the station.
Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase in and in—
1. sharing or identifying fully with a person:
- I am bound in and in with my forbears. We are all nobly born; fortunate those who know it.
2. used with reference to marriages with near relatives in successive generations:
- The marrying in and in of the same family tends constantly to weakness or idiocy in the children.