Wiktionary
adv. (context idiomatic English) By a large degree or margin; greatly.
WordNet
adv. by a considerable margin; "she was by far the smartest student"; "it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten" [syn: by far, out and away]
Wikipedia
Far and Away is a 1992 romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The cinematographer was Mikael Salomon, and the music score was done by John Williams. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Cruise and Kidman play Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 1890s America, eventually taking part in the Land Run of 1893.
This was Cyril Cusack's final film before his death the following year.
Usage examples of "far and away".
There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.
Of all of the Scholars, the Philosophers were by far and away the windiest.
Talaysen was by far and away the best drummer of the four of them.
I don't like making comparisons between kids, and any comparison between Corrie and this group would have been unfair since Corrie was the oldest student, but I have to say that Corrie's puppet was far and away the best one in the class.
On the other hand, the company would lose far and away its best underofficer if he did.
He realized, only too well, that of all the machines of transport man has ever invented, a cruiser of space is far and away the least maneuverable.
Sir Ugo and all the other Italians in Munster had found the ancient dialect far easier to understand and speak than modem French, far and away more so than the guttural Gaelic or Irish.
The loom stretched far and away, two hundred, three hundred feet, and it was filled with it—.
But from what Harold had been able to get from numerous conversationalists from oversea he had deliberately sought out for just this purpose, folk in towns wherein there was much trade had seemed to suffer the ravages of the disease far and away more than had those scattered out in the countrysides.
Tewfik was far and away the most able of old Jamal's legitimate sons, but he was missing an eye, lost in the Zanj Wars a decade ago, and by Colonial law that disqualified him.
But if we're talking about ability, I should have thought Big Beaver was far and away the best qualified.
Sir Ugo and all the other Italians in Munster had found the ancient dialect far easier to understand and speak than modern French, far and away more so than the guttural Gaelic or Irish.
The storm had burgeoned out of control, until it was now far and away the most powerful storm ever created by wizardry on the face of Dest.
She was a fine fighter, but in terms of worldly guile, Trinket was far and away her superior.