up and away
English
Adverb
up and away (comparative more up and away, superlative most up and away)
- (idiomatic) Moving quickly and continuously upwards, often with a sense of joy or excitement.
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
- He is not far on his way, and the Fates and the streams are against him.
Up and away to-morrow, and through the red dew of the morning
We will follow him fast, and bring him back to his prison.