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away at the races

away at the races is the alternative form of off to the races.

Meaning of off to the races

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) In or into a process of energetic engagement in some activity; in or into a phase of conspicuously increasing satisfaction or success.
    • Last week the magazine's tenth annual rating of the nation's leading corporations showed that American business really went off to the races in 1963.1964 July 10, “Industry: Top Money”, in Time

Questions about away at the races

What is away at the races the alternative form of?
Away at the races is the alternative form of off to the races.

Words near away at the races in the dictionary

  1. Awatovi
  2. awave
  3. awawa
  4. awawas
  5. away
  6. away at the races
  7. away day
  8. away days
  9. away from home
  10. away game
  11. away games

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Adapted from Wiktionary: away at the races (page history and authors); off to the races (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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