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away to the races

away to 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 to the races

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

Words near away to the races in the dictionary

  1. away sides
  2. away swing
  3. away team
  4. away teams
  5. away there
  6. away to the races
  7. away with the fairies
  8. away with the pixies
  9. away with you
  10. away-day girl
  11. away-day girls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: away to 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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