Away
Away adverb - From this or that place.
Long way
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Metal Gear Solid went a long way towards moving action games away from having nothing more than an Excuse Plot, instead making the story an integral part of the gaming experience.
Source: Genre Turning Point -
Incidentally, the above mythology went a long way to explaining away pregnant nuns in the Middle Ages without destroying their virtues.
Source: Horny Devils -
Years later, another English dramatist, George Bernard Shaw, wrote Saint Joan which went a long way to rub away centuries of anti-Joan English propaganda.
Source: Useful Notes / Joan of Arc
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